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Tag Archives: OCD

Less than 24 hours and a wake up

Less than 24 hours and a wake up from now, barring some intervention, David will be home. He will come home from a supported environment where he has constant supervision, consistent support, and success in school, to home. Home where we can’t recreate the level of support he has now. Where we will live on edge waiting for him to fall apart mentally. We are appealing the denials, but all of that takes time.  The Developmental Disabilities denial, the supported living staff denial, and general disregard for the welfare of not just the family, but of David.  I am preparing a complaint with the ethics board that governs psychologists because of their unauthorized testing of David. I don’t understand how a facility that claims to be helping children, can be so emboldened as to deny ongoing care. David understands that he may go to a therapeutic foster home if we

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Tags: behavior, Dadblogger, FASD, frustration, mental health, OCD, prtf, RAD, reactive attachment disorder ·

The truth about David.

We visited David tonight.  He wants to come home.  As much as we want him to come home, home isn’t the best place for him. It isn’t just the Reactive Attachment Disorder. It isn’t just the Autism. It isn’t just the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It isn’t just the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It isn’t just the Oppositional Defiant Disorder, the Childhood Conduct Disorder, the bipolar disorder, or any of the other diagnoses that he has and has had. It is the combination of all of these things that is what is working against him. What does this mean for David? Home isn’t the best place for him.  He never should have been discharged.  The psychiatrist indicated that she sees no change in him now from before he began his first placement. So Monday.  We are going to start the paperwork.  The process.  The doctor is documenting their end of the

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Tags: autism, bipolar, childhood conduct, help, OCD, ODD, placement, prayer ·

he got caught stealing vehicle keys

Got caught in a lie.  He took keys to one of our vehicles to school with him. Was notified by the school that he had them. I asked him for them, and he claimed that he didn’t have them.  So I told him he needed to give them to me. He then went to the pickup, opened the door, made a show of looking for the keys and then saying “here they are, I never took them to school, they have been here all this time.” Then he said that so and so from the school was lying. I refused to get into an argument with him.  So I took away bicycle privileges and told him he could go outside to shoot hoops… He didn’t like that the idea that one minute I was taking privileges and then I was giving them back.  Called me all kinds of names. I

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Tags: ADHD, autism, keys, OCD ·

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