I am not sure how excited he was about leaving this morning but he did it. I felt some sadness within him but maybe goodbye is difficult under any circumstance. I took pictures like any proud parent as their offspring starts a new adventure. He left early, I offered to give him a ride into [...]
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When he was entering the sixth grade, my husband and I had made plans for Josh to attend military school. The phone calls from his elementary school about behavior were becoming more and more frequent, our family life was completely disrupted, he was already on pretty substantial doses of stimulant and antipsychotic medications;
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Read about the author and part one of this story by clicking here I Can’t Control My Teen’s Choices, My Journey To Understanding – Part Two The texts started coming in around 2:00 PM today. I was on the phone speaking to a woman about a household project I’d been working on. The first one [...]
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This is an update on the status of my son’s homelessness and the changes he has made in the past months. Thankfully it is a good report.
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Earthquakes are not always caused by mother nature, sometimes we have human produced earthquakes in our everyday lives. We had a couple over the Fourth of July weekend one that I really do not want to go into detail about since it was a relapse and devastating at the time. I think it was the relapse that I knew was looming out there and we had to get over it. I am just hoping that he has learned from his mistake and will make better choices next time. We seem to be getting back on track.
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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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Having a troubled teen comes with a lot of baggage. I have found what makes residential treatment successful is the lack of baggage and the enforcement of consistent consequences. A successful therapeutic program is how they deal with the kids day to day and do not hold on too baggage. All the kids in RTC [...]
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This is a blog posting I found written by what it sounds like is an addict. I thought she recounts quite well what relapse is for the addict. I liked her description of the difference between what once was ”partying” is now “relapse”. Read her story, the link is below. ————————— One rehab…one hundred relapses. Hardly seems worth it [...]
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