Nonsuicidal Suicide Attempts
An audiobook of Chapter Two of “Changing Destiny’s Destiny
Middle school is tough when you are eleven but look four. It’s even worse when you have a tube coming out your nose that provides all your nutrition and you carry around a stuffed lamb and a baby blanket from class to class. When Dr. Marey stops Destiny's Thorazine and she starts acting out against her hallucinations in class, the school has no choice but to tell her parents that Destiny needs to start going to a therapeutic school for kids with mental illness.
Destiny has a calm year when she starts going to Berlin Interventional Therapeutic School (BTIS), but then the voices start up again and convince her to overdose on a bottle of Paxil crushed up mixed with water and injected through her NJ tube. The flashbacks this triggers in Bonnie convince her to seek therapy with Georgie.
Georgie explains that in Bonnie's subconscious mind Bonnie blames herself for the abuse and for Destiny being sick. She is having flashbacks to purposely keep the memories of the abuse fresh so that she can punish herself by having flashbacks that terrorize her and interrupt her life. Georgie teaches Bonnie mindfulness skills to help her stay in the present moment and de-stress, then she helps her process the abuse through a special trauma therapy called EMDR. Once the trauma is processed she will see that she doesn't need to punish herself, the abuse wasn't her fault, she was the victim and the flashbacks will stop.
To find out if the therapy works you will have to listen to this chapter.
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Schizoaffective Disorder at Harding Hospital
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Slitting Her Left Wrist
Cassie has undiagnosed schizoaffective disorder. After her dad brings her to Psych Crisis for the second time in two weeks, her hallucinations convince her to slit her left wrist while waiting in the waiting room. Once the Crisis Clinician finds out that she slit her wrist with a piece of broken beer bottle she’s been carrying around in her sweatshirt pocket for months he begins a psychiatric bed search.
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