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Topic: what was your
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Sat 06/21/08 09:02 AM






[Many homeless people are mentally ill. I am finding out now why that is, looking for options for my daughter. I was basically told that once she is an adult, I can let her live with me or put her on the streets. They tell me there are no other options for mentally ill adults. Sad.


There is definitely a huge gap in our health care system in this area. Some mentally challenged adults do reside in nursing homes or group homes, would that be an option for your daughter? I don't mean to be pry or be too personal, just inquiring.
no you are not prying; my life is pretty much an open book, Robin. For some reason she is not quite in the right niche for a group home, they tell me; and not sick enough for the state hospital. She is in kind of a twilight zone. She is too high functioning, I guess; but ill nonetheless. I will fight for a group home if it comes to it; but the case worker told me what I said above - home or the streets. What a thing to tell a distraught mom.

Anyway, I don't mean to hijack this thread.
I am helping hijack now...but I had a thought late last night when I got an email from a friend back home about her highly ADD son. I know it's not the same thing exactly, but he has come down on his prescription doses steadily since she has been having him do some alternative therapies.

I will have to ask her which she believes is making the biggest difference, but know he's had some regular acupuncture and massage therapies. She tells me she'd didn't know what else to do with him, and saw many new studies showing huge benefits for various disorders and chemical imbalances in this kind of treatment in her internet searche for some options she'd not yet tried. flowerforyou

I am going to a Reiki meet up in a few weeks..I hope I can get her to go with me.
That sounds great! I hope she will go. I believe there is an answer for her just waiting to happen Hiker! I'm praying you find it soon for sure!

It never hurts to give things a shot if there seem to be no straight answers. Wolf has me looking into a clinic near him for a shoulder injury that my Doc insists needs surgery, but cannot tell me exactly why. huh I will try anything before getting cut on without knowing why! Wolf is a pretty tricky fella, huh? laugh :heart: smooched
Methinks he is tricksy, he is!

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Sat 06/21/08 09:33 AM

I'm about to go out and do my good deed, by socializing kittens! its a real job too, its not just playing with kittens for hours on end, noooo, you have to grin and bare it when they claw into your skin and hiss and growl. But they are kittens so its cute when they try to act fierce happy

Hey umm...Debbie...if you come to my house I'll do a good deed for you devil


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