His psychiatrist wrote up some fictional patient notes. Not sure where I was when the things she wrote happened in our appointment happened. They do this with impunity. How can they, in good conscience, tell the parent and child one thing, then write something else in the notes? It’s semantics I know, but here are…
Month: June 2015
denial, denial, denial. who tried to start a fire
David got caught playing with matches in the bathroom. When I asked him about why he was trying to burn down the house, he said “it would have taken more matches than I had, so I couldn’t do that.” Now he denies trying to do anything of the sort. He got caught digging in our…
This Parenting Journey
I did not start out my parenting journey aware of early childhood trauma and the effects of poor attachment. I did not know that babies who experience high levels of stress, especially over a sustained period of time, have brains that do not develop “normally”. I did not know that children who have been through…