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Nothing Is What It Seems – Part One
Image by Detlef C Tim moved to a new residential program in June, as he would be aging out of his previous program when he turned 18 in July. We were happy to find one we liked with a program similar to the one he was used to, much, much closer to home. As with…
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Wordless Wednesday – DSM
Tim: 315.31 / 318.0 / 295.70 Me: 300.01 / 309.81 / 315.1
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When Doctors Won’t Diagnose
I regularly receive emails from parents of children experiencing emotional problems who are distraught because the psychologist or psychiatrist they are seeing won’t officially diagnose their child. When your child clearly isn’t well, you want to know what the condition is that’s making them unwell. That’s natural. And this is a phenomenon that is almost…
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Alone With The Diagnosis: Post for S-O-S Research
I can’t think of anything more shocking to a parent than hearing a doctor tell you that your child has a serious and chronic mental illness. I got my first taste of what a shock it is when my middle child, Timothy, was just eight years old. I was ill prepared for what exactly the…
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Progression
I’ve spent the past two weekends taking all the paperwork we have about Tim and putting it in chronological order and in to three ring binders. Twelve and a half years of paperwork, comprising every evaluation, every IEP, every page of every inpatient stay of Tim’s life, from Pre-K through last week. It took four,…
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The Brain Shell Game
With all the awareness that’s been raised over the past several years about autism, many people now realize that there are several forms of this organic brain disorder- gradations, if you will. Autism is a spectrum, including Pervasive Developmental Disability – Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) on one end, Asperger’s Syndrome somewhere in the middle, and…