Mental Health

[Gronk]

This is my expertise. It’s a complex beast and the Feds are trying to hand responsibility for childhood ASD supports back to the states. @Eelementary needs rest first and foremost so he can be there as best as he can for his family.

Well said. I was actually thinking about respite. Is that a thing for carers within the NDIS space? I know it is for people that provide care for the elderly.

 

[Soren Lorenson]

Well said. I was actually thinking about respite. Is that a thing for carers within the NDIS space? I know it is for people that provide care for the elderly.

Sure is a thing. But it’s sort of 100 steps down the track for Eele based on the little I know of his circumstances.
BTW, if you have heard the media reports of holidays / cruises paid for by the NDIS, calling it respite is how they do it.

 

[the phantom menace]

It's pretty clear that he's a junky and on the downhill. I hope something good happens for him soon.

Can you get addicted to ice after just one use?

Ice has been called the most dangerous drug of our times, and there's no doubt the impact of ice addiction can be devastating. But is one use enough to get you hooked?

www.abc.net.au

I think the best thing that could happen for AOK at the moment is a jail term, tbh.

 

[the phantom menace]

The magistrate said today / yesterday that jail might be the best thing for him to get him clean.

ffs

 

[the phantom menace]

I'm struggling, at the moment.

Little man - who is a beautiful boy of 4, on the ASD spectrum - is lashing out at daycare, and is close to being asked to leave daycare.

He is insisting I either sit on a chair in his room all night, or that he sleep in my bed.

I'm getting 4 hours of sleep a night - on a good night.

I keep thinking, "When will things give me a break?"

I can't keep getting 4 hours of sleep a night - I'm totally wrecked.

I think they might have some assistance like that under the NDIS - as they used to fund some respite assistance for parents under the previous HCWA (Helping Children With Autism) program.

But also hopefully also some assistance for your little man as he's now approaching the key ages for early intervention strategies, which might make things a little easier in his days - and hence also for you as parents - too.

https://www.ndis.gov.au/understanding/families-and-carers/how-we-can-help-carers