This First Person column is written by Wendy Solbak, a school counsellor in Fort McMurray. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be.
The thought echoed through my mind as I sat in the atrium of an Edmonton hospital waiting for an emergency consult with a child psychiatrist.
We had made this five-hour trip to a hospital from our home in Fort McMurray, Alta., because of my daughter’s increasingly alarming symptoms.
But my actual journey alongside an individual with complex mental health struggles began the day my daughter sprung from my womb. It just took me 13 years to understand
