February 21, 2012

Tuesday

I got a text from Tyler today at 12:30 pm. It said "Mom can you come get me? The 12 foot man won't leave me alone and I can' handle it." Then another, "Mom I need you :(" I responded, "Did you tell him to go away? Tell him to leave you alone." Ty said, "I tried but he won't. I'm scared mom."

I picked him up from school. He said that he doesn't know why he is so tired. He said he is just so tired of dealing with this guy. The man followed him around all day, and he sat beside him on the floor in class. Ty said he didn't talk to him, but he would put his hand on Ty's shoulder, and sometimes he would put his face right in Ty's face.

On the way home, Ty kept brushing off his shoulder. The man kept putting his hand there. He was sitting in the backseat. I asked Ty if he thought he was a protector, and he told me he doesn't seem like a protector. He said he doesn't know what he wants, but he wishes he would open his f-ing mouth and say something.

Tyler is just so mentally tired of dealing with this all.

When we got home, Ty said he was going to be by me all afternoon. He is trying to sleep on the couch right now. Tyler asked me to google Dorian Gray. He said that Dorian introduced himself to him today. He's never seen him before, and he's older than the other kids at school. He said that he's not studying Dorian Gray and never has. He thought he was real until he asked the other kids if they had met him, and they said they hadn't seen him.

Tyler did end up taking a walk today. He didn't cause a scene. He wasn't mad. He just felt like the house was closing in on him, and had to get away. I hope he wasn't sneaking out to smoke weed.

We went to see Dr. Barber today, and told him everything that has happened in the past few weeks. He says that he knows Dr. Palamara (the psychiatrist), and she's real good. He said if Ty doesn't like her, that he can find him a new psychiatrist. The doc said that he won't change the meds Ty is on, because Palamara will do that, and she is more qualified than Barber. The plan is to see Palamara until we get his meds figured out, then Barber will prescribe the same meds once Ty is stable. Barber said that his nephew is a paranoid schizophrenic. He is 40 years old, and he lives a pretty normal life. If he gets off his meds, he has a hard time, so it's imperative that he stay on them, and it's lifelong. We already knew that stuff, but it was nice to hear that he has firsthand experience with schizophrenia.