Mental Health Support

When I was stationed in Maryland, we had a training on naloxone, used for overdose. We watched a Maryland video about how even parents who did everything for their kids couldn't save their kids.

One example was a well-to-do family. Their daughter was already accepted to a great university, came home one day, normal day, went upstairs and did fentanyl in the bathroom, and died. Her whole future and a great life, seemingly.

We supported our son every way we could. No matter. It seems it more important to him to hurt my wife's feelings and break her heart than anything. A grudge over who knows what? All I know is that she struggled and did everything she could, single parent with no child support, to raise him and take care of him. Poor, ketchup soup and crackers for dinner at one point. But she carried the load.

Anyway the Maryland video showed me that no matter what the setting, even privileged, a child is still their own person and makes their choices.

One more thing - I came across an interesting study done to see if they could identify how some kids from tough backgrounds make it and some don't. The researchers kind of found an interesting non-answer: they couldn't find any key to why some can make their way and some can't.