Learning Something New everyday
These past few months have been a great learning experiance. My son is making strides in his theraputic group home and is scheduled to be home permantly Feburay 3rd. During the holidays it ws a little rough for him, he was only given 48 hour passes during Thanksgiving and Christmas and it made it difficult to take him back to his unit, but during this process he has learned to accept that because of his behaviors and is unwillingness to learn coping skill and communicate his feeling to me that is why he ended up in this environment.
But I want to stress that this is a two way street, while my son is working of dealing with his triggers and how to cope when he is fustrated, mad, sad, and to communicate his feelings to me, I am learning stratagies in which I can keep him on track. Bipolar disorder is a disease that affects the whole family and because it does each party needs to learn how to be effective in communicating, disaplining and teaching the proper skills necessary to achive a happy and healty house hold.
Since I have mastered advocated effectivly for my son in school and can now get the correct accomedations he needs to be successful in school, I am taking a class called Theraputic Crisses intervention in which they are teaching me techniques that I can use with having a special needs child. AS I learn more on how to use these skills I will pass them on to you. The first exerise is to find your strenths and use them more effectivly and then with your weakness you learn how to make them a strength for me I found I was a great listener, teacher and relater. I need to learn now structre and consistancy as these are key factors as well.
Having a child with bipolar disorder is challenging, but the more you know and get the tools necessary to help your child the better parent you will be. I stongly suggest get a family advocate they are a weath of knowldge and have made me even a stonger parent for my son.
I promise next blogg I will share the techichies I have learned.
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2 Comments:
All I can do is say how lucky your son is to have such a wonderful mother. You are so right in what you say. It does affect everyone in the family. You learn what the triggers are and how to avoid them and then if the do happen what actions to use to lessen their severity. Old behaviors no longer work. It is a long process but I believe the results are worth every bit of energy that is put into it. With time and understanding you son will be able to navigate life in a way that can bring him and those who he loves great joy.
Thank You for your kind words.
I agree with understanding triggers and having a safty plan in place. My hope for my son is to be all he can and to have to proper tools to make him successful in his adult life, and lead a happy life. As a parent I am his rolemodel and advocate to guide him to adulthood, as my son has taught me strenght I want to show him that even thought he has a disorder, with proper knowledge and education he can do anything.
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