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My son is THAT kid
Amy Murray wrote a wonderful post back in November 2014 about THAT kid. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/11/14/teacher-to-parents-about-that-kid-the-one-who-hits-disrupts-and-influences-your-kid/
I knew she was talking about my son as soon as I saw the title. Reading the article broke my heart because I would love if the teacher could tell you why my son is the way he…
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'The Price of Silence' Author Liza Long LIVE
About two weeks ago I saw HuffPost Live was doing a segment entitled ‘Mental Health In America: Accepance & Love’. It was part of their week-long series about mental health in America. They invited people to leave comments so I left a short video – http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/mental-health-redemption/53eaad4602a76097e9000011
Obviously what I said struck a chord because they…
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Pediatric bipolar disorder - is this a secret mental illness?
http://wp.me/p4ODan-g
Back in November 2013 I saw on the news the son of Senator Craig Deeds (VA) had stabbed his father multiple times and then killed himself. I don’t remember exactly when I read his son suffered from bipolar disease, but I do remember my first thought was a completely selfish one because it was about my child and our struggle with pediatric bipolar disorder.
When The Boy was first diagnosed two…
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A lot more about me - part 2
A lot more about me – part 2
Bipolar. Dictionary.com defines ‘bipolar’ as, “having two poles” and “characterized by opposite extremes”. I definitely agree with the second definition having witnessed it first-hand for the last 5+ years.
In April 2009 an amazing musical called ‘Next to Normal’ opened on Broadway. Aside from the outstanding acting, stunning set and rock ‘n roll lyrics was the basic synopsis of it – a mom…
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Of course, there will always be other mothers who think you're too anxious and treat your child like a baby. So what? Your child needs you.
Rosalie Greenburg
10,000 hours.
I haven't written in a while because our son has been in the hospital. Ten straight days in the children's psychiatric hospital. The average stay is 3-4 days, and I don't think they believed us entirely that a six year old needed this. But I'm Ima, I've taught special education for nearly a decade, and it is serious if I bring him to the hospital. Ten days later, I hope things are better. I think his diagnoses are more accurate -- as accurate as they can get, between being 6 years old and the DSM being nothing but a series of social constructs. Reactive attachment disorder, bipolar disorder - not otherwise specified, and developmental coordination disorder, plus the history of trauma. I know his medications are slowing him down, which he needs. He needs to sleep, to nap, to rest his bones. I hope they make him feel better internally. He's sad. He's sad and mad and scared. He's six, and he just spent ten days in the psychiatric hospital. He almost certainly thinks that it is because he was bad, and I know he thought we were abandoning him. He is about to start his fifth school in the last two years, and his 8th or 9th in his lifetime. How can he be anything but scared? I don't know that there is anything for us to do, except keep showing up. That is what we did when he was in the hospital -- visiting 3-4x per day. That is what we will do now -- playing games, making snacks, giving hugs, and listening. Listening to his words and his actions. Over and over and over, until 10,000 hours of love replace the 10,000 hours of fear.
