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What do you do when nobody will help you...nobody?
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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 249034" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>If you are close enough to her? Why don't you take him for a weekend? I'm not being sarcastic either. </p><p> </p><p>When Dude was 7 - before we got with the agency, and I was a new-single mom with no resources I thought I would go out of my mind. Dude's behaviors have been rivaled by very few I've ever met. Someone FINALLY saw that if I didn't get a mental break, be allowed to act out a little myself I would crack. If I cracked then I became EVERYONE's problem because there would BE NO ONE to take care of Dude and then he WOULD become THEIR problem. </p><p> </p><p>I wrote the governor. I told them that I had begged for help. FROM EVERYWHERE. That I had managed to get myself and son into counseling, but due to an abusive marriage, and no family around due to being in hiding through a local DV shelter - I had no one. I needed help. Then I stated that I was NOT getting help in school. The sent him home daily and I lost my job. I told him that I had taken him to the psychiatric hospital - and upon trying to take him clothes and toothbrush etc....I was pulled for driving in a car with no tags, and now faced a 2,500 fine. I told the Governor at that time - that I was WILLING and wanted to do everything possible to GET BOTH OF US HELP....but no one seemed to help. Mental health had 23 year old interns that had NO idea what a life like ours was about - I had NO insurance, and then I added the BOOM....</p><p>I told him that I had kept meticulous records on dates, times and people I spoke with all along the trail of BEGGING for help. And that some day - when my son (who didn't get help he needed) went berzerk and harmed another child - maybe even his child or the child of someone he knew - who knows.....that I would sit on the statehouse steps with my notebook and show EVERY single reporter how I tried to get help and kept getting turned down over the last years. </p><p> </p><p>-I got a letter - inviting me to an interview - to get help with the agency we're now with. I had to wait a year - but in the mean time - I got MORE help and names from the agency to deal with Dude while we waited for help. </p><p> </p><p>MAYBE - that's what this has come to for her and this little boy who needs help. As far as a doctor wanting money and them being strapped? Yeah - I know - but I finally found one that WOULD see us and let me pay back a little at a time - and DID help keep Dude stable until we got in to see a doctor that would take medicaid. </p><p> </p><p>Past that? I'd move -</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 249034, member: 4964"] If you are close enough to her? Why don't you take him for a weekend? I'm not being sarcastic either. When Dude was 7 - before we got with the agency, and I was a new-single mom with no resources I thought I would go out of my mind. Dude's behaviors have been rivaled by very few I've ever met. Someone FINALLY saw that if I didn't get a mental break, be allowed to act out a little myself I would crack. If I cracked then I became EVERYONE's problem because there would BE NO ONE to take care of Dude and then he WOULD become THEIR problem. I wrote the governor. I told them that I had begged for help. FROM EVERYWHERE. That I had managed to get myself and son into counseling, but due to an abusive marriage, and no family around due to being in hiding through a local DV shelter - I had no one. I needed help. Then I stated that I was NOT getting help in school. The sent him home daily and I lost my job. I told him that I had taken him to the psychiatric hospital - and upon trying to take him clothes and toothbrush etc....I was pulled for driving in a car with no tags, and now faced a 2,500 fine. I told the Governor at that time - that I was WILLING and wanted to do everything possible to GET BOTH OF US HELP....but no one seemed to help. Mental health had 23 year old interns that had NO idea what a life like ours was about - I had NO insurance, and then I added the BOOM.... I told him that I had kept meticulous records on dates, times and people I spoke with all along the trail of BEGGING for help. And that some day - when my son (who didn't get help he needed) went berzerk and harmed another child - maybe even his child or the child of someone he knew - who knows.....that I would sit on the statehouse steps with my notebook and show EVERY single reporter how I tried to get help and kept getting turned down over the last years. -I got a letter - inviting me to an interview - to get help with the agency we're now with. I had to wait a year - but in the mean time - I got MORE help and names from the agency to deal with Dude while we waited for help. MAYBE - that's what this has come to for her and this little boy who needs help. As far as a doctor wanting money and them being strapped? Yeah - I know - but I finally found one that WOULD see us and let me pay back a little at a time - and DID help keep Dude stable until we got in to see a doctor that would take medicaid. Past that? I'd move - [/QUOTE]
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