The Mindstorm

Category: NHBPM

  • Deja Vu All Over Again

    …My son Tim, who has a diagnosis of Schizoaffective Disorder, turns 18 in eight months, and he will age out of his current RTC placement. He won’t be graduating high school (read here about the Super Senior program), but we will have to decide whether he should come home or we should find another residential…

  • It’s Not Easy – NHBPM / NaBloPoMo Day 15

    I’ve posted this song before, so if you’ve been brave enough to have been reading my blog for the past three plus  years, you’ve seen it posted before.  But there is no song that better describes my little boy than this one.  He is my Superman.

  • Commuting, Caffeine Deficiency, and Group Hugs – NABPM / NaBloPoMo Day 2

    This morning’s NHBPM prompt isn’t motivating me this morning.  It was to imagine my life is a TV show, and what would it be about.  I could pretty much cut and paste yesterday’s post and fulfill that prompt, so instead, I’m figured I’d just spew out what was rattling around in my head as I…

  • NaBloPoMo / NHBPM Day 1: Duh…

    Since I’m also attempting NaNoWriMo this month, today’s blogging prompt is very appropriate. What is the title and synopsis of a book about your life? The title of my book would have to be the same as the title, and subject, for that matter, of my blog.  The Mindstorm: Raising a Mentally Ill Child.  My…