Category: psychiatrists

  • Nothing Is What It Seems – Part Two

    If you didn’t read part one, click here. In 55 minutes, the reality we’ve been living in was questioned.  The prognosis we’d been operating under was debated. The fate of Tim’s future quality of life was mulled over.  This was all the result of one question posed by the doctor. If Tim’s cognitive issues are…

  • Your Diploma Wasn’t Issued By God

    I am gonna shoot me a psychiatrist one of these days, I swear… So The Girl started the adolescent day hospital program today, after her assessment Tuesday when it was discovered she’d started cutting. Mind you, she started on Monday. She’d never, ever cut before that. At intake Tuesday, the pdoc that heard info about…

  • Health Activist Writer’s Monthly Challenge – Word of the Day

    Over on WEGO Health, where I am a member and I re-post some of my blog posts, it’s Health Activist Writer’s Monthly Challenge month. Each day of the month is a different prompt and we are challenged to blog as many days in April as we can, using the prompts.  So I’m starting on Day…

  • The Doctor Search

    Someone asked me in the comments of a blog post I did on the CABF website how we found a psychiatrist who works well with us – that we feel a partnership with. It wasn’t easy. We started when Tim was four, with a neuropsychologist that said – and I quote – “I’d say he’s…