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It’s An Honor Being Nominated for a Liebster!
I’ve been running around like a loon for the past week with The Girl going into a day program, trying to get a new psych eval on Tim to send to potential 18 and over facilities and my oldest, Wonderboy, who has been in Europe on an internship, losing his work visa extension and being…
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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…
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What To Do Now?
Pain. It hurts. At this point you are probably thinking “duh”, but hear me out. I had to admit my son to an inpatient psychiatric hospital last Friday. There was no choice, really, he was a danger to himself and others. He was experiencing suicidal ideation, and he was kicking the crap out of me and his…
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The Lesser of Two Evils
After an hour reviewing the recent issues with breakthrough psychosis, the extreme anxiety around the requisite blood draws to check white blood cell count, and the real issue of this being the least stable time of year, I heard Tim’s new psychiatrist say the words that I knew were the right decision, but vex me…
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Until There Is No More
Raising a child with mental illness is kind of like navigating your way through Times Square, blindfolded. In some ways you don’t know where you’re going or where you’ve been. Or what obstacles lie ahead.I have been feeling my way around this for the better part of four years. And still, I can find no way…
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Turning a Stigmatizing Experience Into A Positive
Did you read over the weekend about Palmer Advertising in San Francisco, and the ad they put on Craigslist? No? Apparently they are looking for a business development person in the Stockton, California area and the ad, along with job description and required experience, listed this line: “The successful candidate will have … Sanity. If…
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Pdoc-Gate Update: Resolution and Research
So – after that second email letter, and a phone call yesterday, and another phone call today, Tim will finally see a psychiatrist that, amazingly, not only works for the RTC but has her office on the grounds of the RTC Saturday at 1 PM. This doctor will be able to monitor him until they…
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Latest Letter to RTC In No-Pdoc-Gate
Greetings: I understand you have made an appointment with a psychiatrist employed by your sister company for Tim this Saturday at 1 PM. I have a few questions I would like to ask: 1) is this the psychiatrist who will be regularly monitoring Tim until you hire a permanent doctor? 2) is this a child…