The Stranger in My House: How to Reconnect to Your Child with Mental Health - Paperback

by Corrie Corrigan (Author), Tamara Arnold (Foreword by)

"I feel like I'm losing my child "

You've been searching for answers ever since your child started acting out. Answers that, so far, have either eluded you or seem incomplete. You've tried every avenue and agency that you can think or that's been recommended to you, and you're still feeling helpless and hopeless.

You have spent enough time worrying about your child.

In The Stranger in My House, author Corrie Corrigan helps you interrupt the pattern by giving you a new way of thinking and being for both you and your child. Step by step, you'll learn to reconnect to your child and start reclaiming the life mental illness took away when it moved into your house. Imagine having a healthy relationship with your child again You can do it, with this set of tools and strategies that help you move forward - with or without the diagnosis you seek.

Discover how to:

• Let go of the shame, guilt, and embarrassment you feel about what happens in your house
• Start to create change in your household while you are waiting for a final diagnosis
• Recognize the pattern in your child's behaviour, and learn new ways to respond to it
• Rediscover who you are now that you can see how things inside your house are hopeful
• Create and maintain a healthier relationship with your child

Your child is still in there. In this book, you learn how to find your way forward together.