Living with RAD

Reactive Attachment Disorder is so hard to understand. (Learn more about it here.)

It is even harder to live with.

Imagine that giving your child a kiss goodnight sends them into a huge tantrum. Like a tantrum you have never seen before. Screaming, yelling, crying, and hurting themselves.

All because that kiss threatens the security they think they have set up around themselves to protect them from adults who in their minds don't take care of them.

This is what I deal with on a daily basis. Kids should not be afraid of love. It really makes me angry at their birth parents. Angry like you have never seen before.