My New Normal

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I never dreamed I would be facing the day that I would admit one of my children to a hospital because they were suicidal, at this point I am grateful that my son was strong enough to come to me and tell me that as he said it "my life is not worth living", I am also thankful that I had training at the beginning of this school year for suicide awareness and knew what to do. I did not take him to the hospital as soon as he said it, in fact my first step was to take him to the school counselor and have him do a suicide threat assessment, which determined that he was at a high risk of suicide, he had a plan. The part that confused everyone, including me, is my son, we will call him Chase, is very outgoing, is energetic,, popular, athletic, and always making everyone laugh. I guess its true that you have to worry about what they are covering up. My kids have always been able to come to me with anything, I allow them to talk to me, to be honest about what is going on, to talk with no judgement, and without me giving them a hard time. If not I can't imagine what my new normal would look like. So today, two months after my son being in the hospital we are having more good days than bad days, and we seem to have his adhd medicine and depression medicine regulated. Finally.