Category: The Girl

  • Is It June Yet?

    I am so ready for this month to be over. It’s been quite a May so far for the family.  It started out with a happy change – I switched jobs.  I left a major retailer and went to work for a smaller company with better culture, better career opportunities, and better benefits, albeit with…

  • Four Years To Screw Her Up…

    She said I could post her picture.I write a lot about my son Tim and his mental illness. 99.9% of my blog posts focus on him because one, he knows about my blog and thinks it’s “cool,” two, he’s fine with me using his name and picture, and three, his condition, childhood onset schizophrenia, is…

  • 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…

  • Deja Vu All Over Again

    I swear I’ve had a post with this title before. Spent the day back at the psychiatric hospital with The Girl, again.  She’s not trying to become anorexic anymore. No, someone noticed her arm today when her sleeve was pulled up, and up and down her left arm are cuts.  She admitted to the school…