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I have never understood the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, for some reason the name has always confused me and to be honest a bit scary. It is a misleading label that was coined in the 1930’s. I wish I had read this article from The New York Times, Personal Health – An Emotional Hair [...]
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It has been over a week since my son discharged from residential treatment. I really must count my blessings at how well it has gone. Even though at times I have blown it, with “fear based thinking” as I lay awake at night with worry and want to check his room to see if he [...]
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Everything is a first now, prior to my son’s discharged from residential treatment everything was a last, the last night at Heritage, his last meal at Heritage, his last day at Heritage. We took two driving days to get there, Mom, Dad, Brother and Dog, we were a pretty comfortable unit. We picked him on [...]
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A Family Dream Come True Today we pack up, mom, dad, brother, dog and drive back to Provo, Utah, our son is discharging from Heritage Schools Residential Treatment in two days. This is the real deal, there is no going back this time and we are bringing him home for good. Not much more to [...]
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This link also came to me from my friends at Addiction and Recovery news:No One Deserves to Die by Overdose | DrugReporter | AlterNet. I wanted to share the last paragraph of the article with you: We need to accept the reality that people will always use drugs, whether legal or illegal, prescribed or sold [...]
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The first time I heard about “The Stages of Change” was in March 2007. My son was in the psychiatric ward for an eating disorder (very unusual for a male). The nutritionist was explaining to me where she thought he was in recovery and told me to research the “Stages of Change“. Of course at [...]
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Honestly I don’t know if we will ever be prepared for him to come home and I don’t know if that is really possible. The biggest hurdle may be letting go of the past so that it does not over shadow the future holds, we all need to build trust and really value all the great progress he has made. I truly do feel that we are getting the son back that we once knew. We have all changed, I know he has too and we must embrace the change.
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In one week my son is discharging after 1 year 8 months from the Heritage Schools in Provo, Utah. Prior to Heritage he had a short stint at another RTC, where he was asked to leave because “they did not feel they could keep him safe”. Before that he was in Wilderness for 3 months [...]
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