Month: December 2017
Don’t Wait Until You Are Drowning to Learn How to Swim:
Originally posted on parentingforgoodmentalhealth.com:
I know as my teen goes storming out of the house that our fight could have been heard several houses away in our quiet neighborhood. I worry about where he is going, and what he will be doing. It won’t be anything good with him in this state of mind.…
Five Tips on Remaining Connected with Your Teen:
https://parentingforgoodmentalhealth.com/2016/09/06/five-tips-%e2%80%8bon-remaining-connected-with-your-teen/
How Pretty Little Liars helped me
You may be surprised to learn that having a child diagnosed with a mental illness can cause you to go through the five stages of grieving, these are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. You will not necessarily experience them in order, and you may move in and out of them more than once. I ...
Mental Health Crisis: The Cycle of our Lives (Part 2)
Originally posted on Musings of an Addled Father: A Road Map to Mental Health:
The Emergency Department For whatever reason, your child has found him/herself in a mental health crisis. When the crisis happens, no matter where or how it started, the most common direction is to your local Emergency Department (ED). In the remainder…
When My Child was on Fire…
I lost sight of the goal. The problem became bipolar or willfulness. I no longer could see that he was a teen going through typical teen development, and I began to lose my connection with him. I no longer sought to understand; I just tried to fix everything. I moved away from empathizing, and I ...
But by the Grace of God…
Sometimes people looking in from the outside may not realize the herculean effort it takes to parent a child with a mental illness. Somedays it feels like it takes all of our strength just to breathe, and other days, we struggle with keeping our own temper under control while being under verbal assault. Unfortunately, we ...
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