your child is manic and goes running down the street into traffic yelling, just kill me? We had the start of an episode tonight. I ignored it. I walked away. I turned the other cheek. Every time I refused to acknowledge the behavior, the behavior escalated. David started spraying something that we later learned was…
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here come more behaviors
Remember when David was at his second placement? And we couldn’t keep him in his seat at school? He is doing that again. Seeing an increase in behaviors. Disrespect, oppositional, manic. He is running from teachers, throwing things around the re-focus room and generally being as disruptive as he can. Yes he is getting his…
Crisis Mode – Setback in treatment
Just got one of those phone calls I dread. “We had… with David…” Tonight. He was, in my view, manic. It started earlier when we had family therapy. We clarified his discharge info. He was under the impression that discharge was imminent. When in reality, it isn’t. And it is largely because there isn’t a…