My client Antonio, came to me when he was only 16-years-old and he has completely inspired me along with his parents!
That was back in 2005 when Antonio’s parents brought him to see me because the conventional mental health treatment that he was receiving was causing more harm to him than good. He was given several mental health diagnoses, and was on 6 different medications – none of which were needed, had anyone cared to ask Antonio why he was so angry.
It was especially challenging because of I was dealing with a kid whose adoptive parents truly loved, and yet the people who were working with him at the time had told him that he would be in jail or dead by his 18th birthday. The impact on him was devastating. And it was impacting the rest of his family as well.
The amazing thing about Antonio was that he truly wanted to be well. He spent 15 hours with me with his mom for two of the 5-hour sessions and his dad there for all 3 of them. We did them as quickly as we could to shift this situation to one of desperation to one of inspiration of which Antonio has become to anyone who has known his story.
Antonio had a huge shift after our 3 days together finally understanding that he did not need to be angry, that he didn’t have to have all these diagnoses, and shortly went off all the psychotropic medications. Within a few months, he was living at his family’s home again in an apartment that his dad built for him.
Antonio attributes this shift in his life to the fact that he was unconditionally loved and accepted and allowed to have the say, he needed to give the correct direction to his treatment. He was told that as long as he respected his parents time, my time and was able to tell me if he was upset by something I said or had any questions to please let me know so we could work through it as these came up.
He is now 30 years old, owns his own company, had great relationships with his family, and has a great relationship with a significant other.
He and his family still are talking about the great change all these years later that Antonio was able to make because he was finally heard and given the chance to heal the loss of his biological mom from AIDS when he was all of 6 months old.
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