Future Mental Patient

Join me at a free Livestreamed YouTube Event! On Saturday, January 7th I will be reading, Chapter 26, “Not a Career Mental Patient”. The reading is from my 3rd full-length novel, “Saving Destiny”. It hasn’t even hit the bookstore shelves yet!

Back in Chapter 25 Destiny couldn’t handle the treatment plan the Jackson Center set up for her. Staff would forcibly carry her to a seclusion room. In the seclusion room, they would repeatedly restrain and sedate her against her will. It felt like all she had in her future was a career as a mental patient.

A Suicide Attempt

Unable to handle the stress, abandonment, and hopelessness, Destiny was ready to give up. She came up with a plan to inject 100 ml of air into her central line. Her central line was a large tunneled, surgically inserted IV line that led from her chest into her heart. To kill herself, Destiny left school to go to a nearby park.

Under a tree at the park, she sat down in the freezing snow. Then she emptied out her bag with her TPN and IV fluids in it. The syringes were gone! Just then Sam C and Time Out staff pulled up. Sam C made her get in the van. They drove her back to the Jackson Center’s seclusion room. Then they gave her the laminated card and sat down in the doorway. For hours they forced her to wait in there for psych crisis to talk to her. When Psych Crisis came, the clinician immediately decided that she needed to go to the hospital.

My Daughter, The Career Mental Patient

In Chapter 26 Destiny is in her third psych unit admission since starting at the Jackson Center. She is one step closer to becoming a career mental patient.

Now Bonnie, Destiny’s mother is beginning to have doubts about the Jackson Center. Soon she is really beginning to wonder if they have the ability to treat Destiny’s mental illness. Destiny has been at the Jackson Center for six months. In those six months, she had been in the hospital three times. At home, she would normally be in the hospital about three times over a two-year period. Bonnie’s deepest fear was letting Destiny become a career mental patient.

Too Much Tough Love, Too Many Mental Patients

The Jackson Center continues to insist that they can help Destiny, she just needs a tough-love approach. Their tough love approach just scares her more and gets her behaving more and more out of control. Bonnie’s biggest fear of Destiny turning into a career mental patient seems to be coming true.

To save her daughter Bonnie needs to get up the courage to say “no” to the Jackson Center. She needs to start calling the shots herself. Destiny has too much potential to just be a career mental patient.

To find out if she can do it, you will have to attend the event.