Mental health support group offers parents the chance to share

Talk it Over mental health support group offers parents the chance to share, comfort and lean on one another
Published: Friday, May 13, 2011, 1:07 PM
Updated: Friday, May 13, 2011, 1:30 PM
By Special to The Oregonian

When Margaret Puckette's child started displaying symptoms of schizophrenia 15 years ago, Puckette searched fruitlessly for an organization that could help her through her own troubles.

"There was nothing for parents," Puckette said. "People like me struggled in silence, in terror, and in frustration. FULL STORY

I left a nice, long comment there-

RE: "There was nothing for parents," Puckette said. "People like me struggled in silence, in terror, and in frustration."

In the late 1990's we had to take our then 14- year old boy to mental health due to his behavior problems in school and his destructive criminal activities around town. He quickly ended up in state custody of Oregon Youth Authority and spent 3 years in treatment homes, where he committed more crimes while living in a Pendleton foster home-- and finally in EOAMTC in Pendleton.

At EOAMTC, a flake of a psychiatrist pulled a diagnosis of "depression" off the wall and it was instantly decided that I was the cause of it. So then it became a CPS case. It was decided that what our family "needed" was for Daddy to be accused of abusing the criminal thug teen.

This was an utter 3-ring circus (including the CPS agent's decision that the entire family needed "therapy"- including the 2 year old baby- to "learn how to get along with the troubled teen").

I finally found out that the alleged abuse was because I TALKED with him about his "bad decisions".

I filed a Grievance and won.

But I am here to tell you, having a mentally ill child may soon involve the parents in the ungodly insane CPS system.

Which does NOT come under any definition of "help".

My experience with how evil CPS and those who collude with them was so educational that I started the American Family Rights association to help others.