Was today a day, in my office of course. It stated with an extremely sad case of a lady with what the psychiatrist diagnosed as a mood disorder, that I felt was a bipolar disorder with psychosis (she was hearing a voice in her head). To make this more painful was that she had just given birth 5 weeks previous. As she sat and told me what was going on with her, her tiny baby was nestled into his car seat. She talked about anger, anxiety, mood swings, depression and the fact she did not feel she was "bonding" with her baby. She was taking care of him and nurturing him but could feel no connection to him.
The next client was a 13 year old girl who had been expelled from junior high for drinking alcohol in class. Wow, that was a tough one. All she could do was hold her head in her hands and try not to cry.
I had a few kiddos who needed extreme prompting to participate in any therapy activity, and sad to say, I was glad for my last cancellation of the day. Notes to write, calls to return to families, oh and also those dreaded calls to Child Protective Services, gotta love that to end the Friday.
Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
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