Tag: PTSD in children
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A Masterpiece
“You’ll never guess what happened to me today! I was raped!” She said this gleefully. “But they gave me a shot in the leg so I don’t get HIV and a pill so I want to move on.” “But I thought you went off birth control because you wanted to make babies with Joe (fake…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 8)
“Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow” Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy The lead social worker on her case at Saint —— facility mentioned that while reading M’s extensive medical records she had to pause often. The trauma described seemed too insurmountable. She was in awe…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt.7)
“I may be a lost cause, but I thought if you loved me, it needn’t matter.” John Osborne M didn’t make contact with us for the next two weeks. By now M’s sisters were on the fast track to adoption. We could have jumped ship at this point. Her worker told us that she had…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 4)
M’s issues as noted by the experts at the time: ADHD, PTSD, mild cognitive “delays.” Because we were only foster parents, we had no access to her previous medical or psychiatric records. We were completely dependent on the overworked social services and foster care agency staff. Things were hinted at or misrepresented or just misremembered.…
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Rescue From the Cuckoo’s Nest (pt. 3)
Looking back, it amazes me that the health care officials in charge of this place were so blasé about thrusting an obviously highly traumatized child into my car after a fifteen minute introduction playing Junior Monopoly. As a former fifth grade teacher I noticed that M had trouble counting steps around the board and had…
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Cinderella
It has been two years since we brought our foster daughter her Cinderella costume at the mental health hospital. She was trapped in the facility where she spent four months being “snowed” (a term insiders use as code for the state of over-medicated kids). Children in foster care have seemingly endless access to facilities, group…
Author Adrienne Morris 