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 Chicken Chick
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Location: Texas | The1CowgirlsEnvy - 2013-11-19 1:06 AM pinx05 - 2013-11-18 2:37 PM CanCan - 2013-11-17 9:11 AM Okay, so some of you are determined to stone this couple. Just shows that you don't understand mental illness or our health system. It is almost impossible to get help for the dangerously mentally ill. Insurance plays out and no one will help. Police will lock them up for a day or two. Hospitals will restrain, admit, and then treat and street them. This 9 year old child could be truly dangerous. I remember reading an essay written after a school shooting. The mom/author was raising a child that she understood to be capable of killing and she had no help with him. I'm off to see if I can find that essay. We know a girl that has a mentally ill son. I don't know exactly what is wrong with him but he is mentally at the age of about 9 or so, really he is 17 I think. She is single and it is just them 2 living in their house. Being around this kid, he acted just like my 9 year old and they would have huge conversations about "kid" stuff. Not a problem, no anger issues etc, respectful. Really a good kid to be around, and we enjoyed being around him.
2 nights ago she woke up to him standing at the end of her bed staring at her. She asked what he was doing and he said "Nothing", she said then why are you in my room staring at me? He took off running. They looked for him for hours, the cops finally found him and brought him home. The cop was asking why he ran away etc and the kid kept saying "I don't know", they then started asking why he was in his mom's room watching her sleep. He finally told them he was thinking about how he could cut her up into a million pieces and get rid of the body. The cop told her what her son said about her and pretty much said good luck.
This is her biological son that she has lived with his whole life. Her son is at least 6' tall and she is like 5'4" and a tiny little thing. I don't know what she is going to do, I don't even know what her options are... but I feel for her. I couldn't imagine being scared of my own son. That is the scariest this I have ever read! I can't imagine what that poor woman must be thinking or going through. That being said, I give kudos to the parents for realizing that they were unable to help this child and at least giving him to child services that hopefully can help him in some way shape or form. I'd rather my tax money go to that then bums on welfare etc
We were all shocked. Everyone in our little family offered to take him out with us when we went bowling etc, and he was the best kid to be around. Of course he was always asking for a dollar here and there to play video games, but so were the other kids.
My husband was just at their house about 3 weeks ago and came home telling stories about the kid and how funny he was.
I would have never in my wildest dreams thought we would have gotten the call about what he said about his mom. I figured it would have been something like taking his mom's car for a joy ride.
Last I heard she doesn't know what to do. She doesn't want to put him in a facility because he is her baby but she is scared of him, and I don't blame her.
So as for the people the OP posted about. I don't judge them, to me it sounds like they just didn't know what to do. Maybe now he can go somewhere and possibly get help, instead of getting worse and/or hurting someone. | |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | And this...........
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/21/virginia-looking-into-treatment-creigh-deeds-son-before-stabbing-attack/?intcmp=latestnews
HOT SPRINGS, VA. – As police studied evidence into what led to the attack on state Sen. Creigh Deeds, a Virginia health official said his office opened an investigation into why the legislator's son was reportedly released from emergency custody the day before he stabbed his father and killed himself. The son, Gus Deeds, was a talented musician known for his stories and his smarts and as someone who could carry on conversations on wide range of topics. But his mental health apparently came into question the day before the Tuesday's attack at the family's farm in western Virginia. His father was in good condition at a hospital. Media outlets reported an emergency custody order was issued for him, but they have not said why. He was taken to the Rockbridge Area Community Services center, which treats mental illness and substance abuse, but he was released because they couldn't find a psychiatric bed for him. Several hospitals told news media after the stabbing that they had space.
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Location: Kansas | I'm going to pray for society, and pray that my daughter will have a wonderful life and never have to know the feeling of being unloved.
I can't scroll down my newsfeed on facebook anymore without someone sharing a sad story about a child being locked away in a cage or being starved to death. I read one this morning that had me in tears. A little girl 5-6 years old was found in a crib that was made into a makeshift cage, and they found her trying to eat herself because of starvation. They also found remains of a child buried in the backyard, as well as a 1 month old baby boy. I pray those children come into a home who shows them love, lord knows we need it in times such as these, and to face all those monsters. | |
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