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It’s your fault Dad for not helping me be honest

David said “It’s your fault dad, for not helping me be honest.” And he still claims he is innocent, and the mentor is lying. About what? Yeah, I guess that would be helpful to know. When David got home last night from his mentor time, he had a basketball. Said that the mentor let him buy it with his flex funds. (Typically, by the end of the month the flex funds are gone.) At any rate, David said that the ball cost 70 dollars. So I confirmed all of this with the Mentor Coordinator who followed up with the mentor. David has mentors two times a week. Yesterday he was with his mentor at the YMCA. Toward the end of their time together, David said he was hungry and demanded to go to McDonalds. The mentor refused. They had already spent the day’s allotted funds on food. So David took

the enemy within

David is his own worst enemy. With the increase in behaviors, our psych team has discussed changing one of his medicines. We aren’t doing a wholesale med wash like we used to do. Rather we are increasing one of the stabilizers. Hopefully we will see a change. When we met with the psych team, I commented – in front of David – that the last time he was discharged home from a residential placement, he lasted 8 months before we had to look for placement. We are in month 3, and a review of my posts from that time, shows that he is on track for another placement. I hate the idea of sending him to another facility, but if he can’t maintain behaviors that are acceptable to society, can’t stop lying, being vocally aggressive to staff and/or going into a rage because he has been caught doing something that