Supergirl
With Love & Silk
YOU MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO READ ALL OF THIS, BUT PLEASE PRAY ANYWAY!
She is a special education teacher, but she can't even help her own son. He goes into these uncontrollable and sometimes violent fits when something doesn't go the way he wants it to. It could even be an inanimate object not working like he wants it to. He is 8, but this has been happening a while. She has tried spanking, punishing, etc. He has a psychiatrist, is on meds, etc. The father also is not able to get the boy under control during these fits. Sometimes he will hit his parents.
They are Believers, but they are white and I think their church is very conservative and so the teachings there may be conservative as well.
He has spent several short periods in hospital mental wards, been carted off by the ambulance but nothing doing. His psychiatrist recommended this residential treatment program where the parents had to send him away to Austin (3 hours away). The parents made the tough decision to do it and they went down every weekend for family therapy and to visit with him. They put him on new meds, but had to introduce them gradually because they made him sick. They also did find that he had a brain abnormality that was causing him to behave this way.
He just got back last week and is doing a better job of self-managing his fits. He still has them, but is doing better at getting himself together and talking about it afterwards. He had one on Friday and I witnessed part of it. The mom told me about how his eyes glaze over when he is having one and he doesn't seem to hear anything anyone tries to say to him. She says when it's over, she can kind of see the life come back into his eyes. Guys, to me that sounds like a serious demonic strong hold. I have been praying for her since I met her last year--I know this is wearing her out AND she even lost her mom less than a year ago. She's been dealing with a lot. I try to encourage her and tell her that she has sown a lot into getting her child well and she will reap from it. I believe that, but I ask for your prayers for her. No mother should have to go through this. The son says he is a bad person and he would like to stop having fits, but he doesn't know how to stop. How heartbreaking.
Thanks for reading and thanks for your prayers.
She is a special education teacher, but she can't even help her own son. He goes into these uncontrollable and sometimes violent fits when something doesn't go the way he wants it to. It could even be an inanimate object not working like he wants it to. He is 8, but this has been happening a while. She has tried spanking, punishing, etc. He has a psychiatrist, is on meds, etc. The father also is not able to get the boy under control during these fits. Sometimes he will hit his parents.
They are Believers, but they are white and I think their church is very conservative and so the teachings there may be conservative as well.
He has spent several short periods in hospital mental wards, been carted off by the ambulance but nothing doing. His psychiatrist recommended this residential treatment program where the parents had to send him away to Austin (3 hours away). The parents made the tough decision to do it and they went down every weekend for family therapy and to visit with him. They put him on new meds, but had to introduce them gradually because they made him sick. They also did find that he had a brain abnormality that was causing him to behave this way.
He just got back last week and is doing a better job of self-managing his fits. He still has them, but is doing better at getting himself together and talking about it afterwards. He had one on Friday and I witnessed part of it. The mom told me about how his eyes glaze over when he is having one and he doesn't seem to hear anything anyone tries to say to him. She says when it's over, she can kind of see the life come back into his eyes. Guys, to me that sounds like a serious demonic strong hold. I have been praying for her since I met her last year--I know this is wearing her out AND she even lost her mom less than a year ago. She's been dealing with a lot. I try to encourage her and tell her that she has sown a lot into getting her child well and she will reap from it. I believe that, but I ask for your prayers for her. No mother should have to go through this. The son says he is a bad person and he would like to stop having fits, but he doesn't know how to stop. How heartbreaking.
Thanks for reading and thanks for your prayers.
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