Parents of children with mental illness look at shooters and wonder, could that be my child? by lisabelkin
Every time Ruth K. hears of another act of violence — when teens are accused of murdering parents; when El Paso and Dayton are stunned by back-to-back shootings; when Denver’s schools are closed during a police hunt for a would-be Columbine copycat — she is afraid for her 16-year-old daughter.
“I want to punch him for ‘monsters,’” one father said of Trump’s description. “Mental illness in no way equals de facto violence. But there’s a part of me that thinks, OK, fine, call my kid the problem. Then come help me do something to fix it. I can’t do it by myself.” Marcia pictured it all through her son’s turbulent childhood, marked by violent, chair-throwing tantrums. He went through a series of therapists while his parents fruitlessly tried various discipline strategies. After he brought a pocketknife to school and handed his teacher a note saying he was going to kill himself, he was handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser and brought to a psychiatric hospital for the first time.
And Ruth, too, imagined it, in April, when she read about the would-be-Columbine-copycat, specifically about her journals filled with drawings of shotguns and bloody knives. With each highly publicized shooting, parents of potentially violent children scour the news stories, often between the lines, looking for a parent who tried, and failed, to get help.
Marcia, too, looks for previous cries for help. “I wonder about the shooters’ families, the ones who are teens and young adults,” she said.
A parent, who asked to be called Bob, shared his Google Doc of expenses for his son, now 11 years old. It includes $1,250 a day for a residential treatment program in Utah, several $1,500 payments to the educational consultant who helped find that program, $10,347 to the company that transported the boy 500-plus miles to get there, the airfare, car rental and motel costs to visit him for family therapy sessions.
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