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PLOM Disease: A Little Understood Phenomena
All of my children, adopted with their siblings, have suffered from this disease; the affliction appearing more obvious in some kids than others, but the good news is that it is treatable and curable....
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Stumped By Problems in the Mental Health Field
The Atlanta Journal Constitution had written a series about some terribly sad deaths in Georgia in mental hospitals resulting in a lawsuit and an investigation which unfortunately has made it a...
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Seeking Residential Psychiatric Help
After nearly two months now in two different psychiatric hospital placements, my son was discharged yesterday as they are both considered short term facilities. Even if it is obvious that our family’s...
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Mental Health Facilities for Children
I’m a little cowed by the fact that several of my children have needed to live somewhere else in out-of-home placements. I could not meet their psychiatric needs within the confines and limitations of...
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Struggling With My Perspective on Life
I’m trying to keep my life in perspective as I wade through defiant, mean children while juggling an admittance to a psychiatric hospital, not for me but for a son, realizing another son got locked up...
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Moving Into a Psychiatric Hospital
I heard the traffic reporter on the radio today claim that she was too blessed to be stressed. I ran the words through my head over and over until I realized that in spite of my very bad attitude...
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Severe Emotional Problems in Older Adopted Children and Foster Children
As soon as I heard the news regarding the teen shooter, I wondered to myself if he’d either been a foster child or been adopted as an older child. I quickly tried to blow off that thought as paranoia...
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Dealing With Mental Disabilities
Parents who’ve adopted older children usually bemoan the obvious – the lying and the stealing behaviors. To tell you the truth, I’ve learned to live with those behaviors early on while doing my best...
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A Broken System
I dare anyone who has adopted older children from the system to read this article. It is horrifying and totally realistic. It’s the same story I’ve heard from so many parents, and it’s been lived out...
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A Lack of Education Due to Emotional and Mental Issues
A totally tough element in the equation of the adoption of older children is how tough it is to get them through school. Long range plans seem to not compute, deferred gratification is an elusive...
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