That phone call gave Romero the insight she needed to move forward. Daniel, it turned out, had schizophrenia. The woman on the other end of the phone told Romero that it was time to stop trying to fix Daniel, because the only thing that would make him better was medication. "And it was like right then somebody just put a blanket over my shaking shoulders, because for the first time somebody said that our son was not a bad kid. You have a very sick boy on your hands,'" Romero recalls. ![]() She called and was eventually connected with a woman who said something that changed her whole perspective on the painful situation. After a few days, Romero was finally able to find the facility he was in. When the authorities came, they didn't tell the family where Daniel would be taken. "We made a decision to just maybe believe that somebody else could do better than we could," Romero said.īy giving Daniel over to CPS, Romero and her husband also gave up their rights as Daniel's parents. One day, in 2005, Romero and her husband made the difficult choice to relinquish him to Child Protective Services. "I used to just cry and cry and cry," Romero said.ĭaniel went in and out of juvenile detention. Romero felt like she was failing as a parent. They took him to therapists and psychiatrists, but the behavior only got worse. Nothing Romero and her husband tried seemed to help. "He had a lot of stuff going on in his head, and if you interrupted that and got in the way, he would either get verbally very abusive or he'd be violent," Romero remembers. It was difficult to know what would trigger Daniel. ![]() ![]() that was staying up all night talking to himself," Romero said. "Now there was this tall, wild-eyed young man. But as he entered middle school, his personality shifted. This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team, about people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.Įverything changed for Barbara Romero and her husband around the time their son Daniel turned 12 years old.Īs a young boy, Daniel was curious and silly. Listen Barbara Romero and her son Daniel.
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