toughlovin
Well-Known Member
Hi Everyone,
Well it is has been a long couple of weeks with much angst..... My son spent 2 weeks in the psychiatric unit because of suicidality.... and they did get him on medications which I think helped stabalize him all which is good. My difficult child may not recognize the seriousness of his substance abuse, in fact I still think he is in denial about that BUT he does want help for his mental health issues and does seem to recognize that which is good.
The problem has been that they have not been able to find a program fror him that will take him. He needs a dual diagnosis program and there are no beds available in the programs acceptable to probation.
So in the end they could not find him a bed and so they released him to the police who took him on a warrant that probation had put on him because he had not properly notified him of where he was (which was partly just plain old miscommunication and geez he was in a psychiatric unit!). I am pretty furstrated.
So he is now back in jail waiting for a placement.... and I kind of freaked out because they were going to send him to jail but it wasnt at all clear they were going to make sure he got his medications.
Lucky for him I have some really good connections through my job and I called them in and ended up talking to the superintendant of the prison who and sent him the prescriptions and so he did get on his medications and is being held at least for now in the infirmary.... but that would not have happened if I had not made some phone calls to some people I know!! The medication issue would have completely fallen through the cracks. Our mental health ysstem is so broken really!!!
So I went to court today andhe is being held until Wed until drug court. The good thing is that everyone does seem to agree he needs dual diagnosis treatment so lets hope they find hat for him somehow.
The whole thing has been incredibley stressful and worrisome.... and in the meantime the friend who helped my son out in CA died which is very very upsetting.
So I have been reading but kind of just wallowing a bit and playing ocomputer games and not getting much else done.
TL
Well it is has been a long couple of weeks with much angst..... My son spent 2 weeks in the psychiatric unit because of suicidality.... and they did get him on medications which I think helped stabalize him all which is good. My difficult child may not recognize the seriousness of his substance abuse, in fact I still think he is in denial about that BUT he does want help for his mental health issues and does seem to recognize that which is good.
The problem has been that they have not been able to find a program fror him that will take him. He needs a dual diagnosis program and there are no beds available in the programs acceptable to probation.
So in the end they could not find him a bed and so they released him to the police who took him on a warrant that probation had put on him because he had not properly notified him of where he was (which was partly just plain old miscommunication and geez he was in a psychiatric unit!). I am pretty furstrated.
So he is now back in jail waiting for a placement.... and I kind of freaked out because they were going to send him to jail but it wasnt at all clear they were going to make sure he got his medications.
Lucky for him I have some really good connections through my job and I called them in and ended up talking to the superintendant of the prison who and sent him the prescriptions and so he did get on his medications and is being held at least for now in the infirmary.... but that would not have happened if I had not made some phone calls to some people I know!! The medication issue would have completely fallen through the cracks. Our mental health ysstem is so broken really!!!
So I went to court today andhe is being held until Wed until drug court. The good thing is that everyone does seem to agree he needs dual diagnosis treatment so lets hope they find hat for him somehow.
The whole thing has been incredibley stressful and worrisome.... and in the meantime the friend who helped my son out in CA died which is very very upsetting.
So I have been reading but kind of just wallowing a bit and playing ocomputer games and not getting much else done.
TL
