Seven Months
You did the hard part. You noticed, you had the conversation, your teenager agreed. Then you called, and somebody gave you a number of months. Chris Coulter on the teen mental health waitlist nobody prepares Canadian families for: the two queues nobody explains, the wait that happens before the wait, what the months cost with a kid who just took a risk on you, and what can happen in the gap.
Seventeen Hours
While my daughter was in a psychiatric unit, I felt something close to safe. There was a building with staff in it. When she came home, the fear arrived properly, and my sons were in that house for every hour of it. What the reversal does to the other children, why nobody catches it, and what helps more than a big conversation. (