Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Mental illness
One more time, a couple of days in the hospital with a poor kid, a seven-year-old, who I barely knew, but who was off to a hospital for mental or "behavioral" issues. I couldn't help but think of other kids I'd had who had been down this same road. And a persistent fear of mine that it's actually a kind of spirituality crisis. The kid gets off the path where they can clearly see God, themselves, the path, and their place in the world.
In this case, a seven-year-old, it may have been very tenuous that she had any idea of what she was not seeing or knowing. Sure, they take young kids to church, and the kids make as much sense as they can out of what they hear. We, as I said, barely knew these kids (she had a twin, whom she almost killed), and with such short notice may have been unable to even affect the outcome where a lifetime of training led her to be who she was. What could spirituality have had to do with it?
Yet part of me says, "everything," in this case and in every case, and in trying to unravel how such cases end up in hospitals with mental health drugs involved and everyone hoping for "stablilization."
If I want queries for my silence, this week and those to come, here's a start.
In this case, a seven-year-old, it may have been very tenuous that she had any idea of what she was not seeing or knowing. Sure, they take young kids to church, and the kids make as much sense as they can out of what they hear. We, as I said, barely knew these kids (she had a twin, whom she almost killed), and with such short notice may have been unable to even affect the outcome where a lifetime of training led her to be who she was. What could spirituality have had to do with it?
Yet part of me says, "everything," in this case and in every case, and in trying to unravel how such cases end up in hospitals with mental health drugs involved and everyone hoping for "stablilization."
If I want queries for my silence, this week and those to come, here's a start.
