Tag: adolescent mental health
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Thoughts on Afters and Nexts 2.0
Tomorrow is the last day of the 2021-2022 school year. The kids will say peace out to 9th and 10th grades by lunchtime, and by dinnertime the eldest will also be officially discharged from the outpatient mental heath program that has been that child’s only extracurricular activity since March. To say the least, June 16,…
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Antonyms for Linear…
Healing is not linear. Every option available to the kid and to us as parents right now is a rotten option. Nothing makes sense and nothing is clear – actually nothing make sense and the only thing that is clear is our love for this child.
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Strange Symmetry and “Stepping Down”
April 5, 2022, 6 years deep into treatment for depression and an anxiety disorder, and just one month into a partial hospitalization program to treat a crisis point in their mental health; my eldest child was officially “stepped down” from the full day program to the afternoon program.
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Thoughts on Afters and Nexts
So here’s the thing….if you ask me how I am right now, I will probably answer honestly that I am perpetually exhausted, frustrated by school and insurance systems that make it nearly impossible to get a teenager critical mental health treatment, frightened for my struggling child, worried that my other child is uncomfortable in our…
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Birthday Eves and World Mental Health Day
On this day 15 years ago there was so much I did not know. I certainly didn’t imagine that our every day would include my child living (thriving) with mental illness. And that means that somewhere out there this evening are other mothers, in other hospitals, waiting for their own baby to join the world…
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Social Distancing Week 13…Kind of a Big Deal
By stripping away the people, pressures, and noise of the world, the man-child has been able to fully accept and own who he is and begin to claim his space in the world. It’s definitely a big deal.
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Social Distancing Week 7…Strengthening The Safety Net
Friday, May 1, 2020…2:03pm The end of week 7 and a turn of the calendar into yet another new month. This week we “celebrated” my birthday. My husband and daughter did so much to make the day as special as possible and I did feel celebrated and loved. Unfortunately, it was also the day my…
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Social Distancing Week 6…A New Rhythm
Friday, April 24, 2020…12:22pm The end of week 6. It only took 42 days, but we finally found a new rhythm in our house. Individually and collectively we all seem to be settled in to this new normal. There’s been an acceptance that we are in fact going to be in this holding pattern sort…
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Social Distancing Week 5….Here Comes the Sun (Eventually)
Friday, April 17, 2020…1:18pm The end of week 5. Remember when we were mostly & blissfully ignorant about how long this time at home would actually be? The good old days… Coming off an exceptionally challenging time last week , I spent much of this week running on fumes. If you’d asked me at any point…
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Social Distancing Week 4…And Real Life
Friday, April 10, 2020…3:50pm The end of week 4. As I am writing this, the stay at home order in Los Angeles County has just been extended through May 15th. That means we are in this liminal space for at least another 5 weeks. This was technically Spring Break for the kids. We hadn’t made…
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