When we heard from YsD a month ago I wrote: “I have to be optimistic for her; at some point everything she’s learned these past 31 years will kick in and she’ll lead a more ‘normal’ existence…”
Well, I’m still hopeful, but after all this time I’ve found that nothing surprises me. And during her [...]

I know some were probably disturbed by my cavalier attitude when I’d heard that she had been in a crisis unit on the 12th… but it’s simply a coping mechanism. Her father and I do care for her very much.
ANYway, the story, from the horse’s mouth no less: she went to the Salvation Army [...]

A call came in from a woman at ‘Vista Crisis Unit’ yesterday, telling me that YsD would be released shortly.
I asked what had happened and was assured that she had not relapsed and was still living in the halfway house, but that YsD had just felt ‘overwhelmed’ and went to the Salvation Army. The [...]

YsD reached out and touched me with the aid of a phone card. I haven’t phoned her at all; ever since she flipped on me that day and asked for money after spending an hour claiming that she was going to make it on her own with no help from anyone. And how [...]

Just a YsD update. She didn’t call Arthur on Sunday to wish him a happy Father’s Day and also failed to call her son for his 9th birthday, which coincidentally fell on the same day this year.
When I spoke with her on the 11th, she expressed alarm that she’d not found work yet. [...]

…she wants money. One hundred dollars to buy food and bus fare.
Let me tell you about the progress she has made. She has identified her problem as an inability to proceed past the survival phase of life. It’s all she knows and all she does. When living with others, she becomes [...]