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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

an update. close watch again

David is on close watch again. He is under the belief that no matter what he does there, he is going to be moved to another facility. But that is not entirely why he is on close watch. He is on close watch because: he climbed to the top of his closet and hid there. he is threatening to self harm again. he is combative. he is tearing large pieces of wood from the bottom of his bed. he is at risk. I don’t know if he is delusional or what, but I do know that in the past when he has been like this, it has had a direct affect on my health. See, I have an auto-immune disorder. Lupus. Systemic. Basically what that means is my body doesn’t like me, and when I feel stress my body goes into self attack mode and tries to hurt me by

a setup for failure?

There hasn’t been much to report in regards to David. He has been doing well, and by all reports is working his program. Yesterday we had an IEP for him in the morning, and then his monthly treatment plan meeting in the afternoon. At the second meeting, David indicated that he had reached the next level in his program, Bronze III. Which means he has been doing really well. Then he said, “I have a feeling I will be dropping a level soon.” Today I got a call. Not that he has been dropped a level, but that he is on an aggression plan. Evidently he hit his primary. A toy went missing, and David admitted taking it. He had his room stripped of everything except his bed, and his bedding. He wanted to file a grievance, and when he wasn’t able to immediately do so, he got upset. Staff