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19 1/2 Year Old Struggling With Complex Developmental Challenges
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<blockquote data-quote="tbod" data-source="post: 687539" data-attributes="member: 20297"><p>Thanks for that insight wrt maturity factors. I've read that before. Just don't have the patience and sanity to wait any longer. Been a long very very hard road to date. So, took him to his narcotics counseling today and then to his psychologist....weekly stuff. Had a lot to download with the psychiatric today. He nearly was expelled this last Thursday (final 2 weeks of his senior year) due to aggressive hostile behavior against another kid....was fired two weeks ago from last job due to fighting some coworker in the parking lot after work.. Cant make this stuff up. He's been to anger counseling for nearly 3 years now..and when in the moment..he data dumps everything he's learned. Also, just got in the mail a court summons for him to appear in Aug for a marijuana possession charge last Oct. Finally popped up in the system. Has a court date on 6 June also to close out a marijuana related incident that happened last Sep. its like this endless dark cloud. Anyway, in my discussions with the psychiatric today...stated that I'm seeing lots of recommendations to seek a neropsych to which he stated..that all that will happen in the testing is to confirm what we already know about my son to date (pre-frontal cortex related delays...constant anger/ADHD/cycling behavior/impulsivity/poor decision making/attention seeking behavior and general delayed development overall....followed by recommendation to start medications. That's where things will come off the tracks. Been down the medications alley for years. He was on at least 10 that I can recall. Nothing touched his issues with the exception that he started to act on the hostile thoughts that he was surpressing with whatever control he had prior to taking medications. So, due to fact that he is 19.5 and resents like hell the medications that he was on...certainly wont do it. We're locked into a corner on all of this it seems. The psychiatric stated today that his abilty to be hold it together in the military for very long just really won't happen. So, I'm going to let my son "try" and live on his own (he really wants this I think...or at least thinks he does)...the psychiatric stated that this will likely be a distaster...but he is 19 and can do this if he wants. He cant even hold onto his pay check for more than 3 days...then he's broke. I timed it. That is the average. So, how is he going to pay rent if can't budget money or time. Tried so hard over the years. Just the angry response. "Let me manage my stuff the way I want to!!" Ok genius... you go. I say..let him do it and learn the hard way. Just for fun...took him to the gym with me after his psychiatric appointment hoping for a good work out with him...he must have slipped out of the gym and smoked it up and was a high as kite when I took him to applebys with me. You know...you get to a point where you just can't get mad anymore...just numb. He was silly and red eyed the whole time we were there. Goofy and a bit embarrassing...but I was starved...and I don't want this crap impacting my day either. I ate well!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tbod, post: 687539, member: 20297"] Thanks for that insight wrt maturity factors. I've read that before. Just don't have the patience and sanity to wait any longer. Been a long very very hard road to date. So, took him to his narcotics counseling today and then to his psychologist....weekly stuff. Had a lot to download with the psychiatric today. He nearly was expelled this last Thursday (final 2 weeks of his senior year) due to aggressive hostile behavior against another kid....was fired two weeks ago from last job due to fighting some coworker in the parking lot after work.. Cant make this stuff up. He's been to anger counseling for nearly 3 years now..and when in the moment..he data dumps everything he's learned. Also, just got in the mail a court summons for him to appear in Aug for a marijuana possession charge last Oct. Finally popped up in the system. Has a court date on 6 June also to close out a marijuana related incident that happened last Sep. its like this endless dark cloud. Anyway, in my discussions with the psychiatric today...stated that I'm seeing lots of recommendations to seek a neropsych to which he stated..that all that will happen in the testing is to confirm what we already know about my son to date (pre-frontal cortex related delays...constant anger/ADHD/cycling behavior/impulsivity/poor decision making/attention seeking behavior and general delayed development overall....followed by recommendation to start medications. That's where things will come off the tracks. Been down the medications alley for years. He was on at least 10 that I can recall. Nothing touched his issues with the exception that he started to act on the hostile thoughts that he was surpressing with whatever control he had prior to taking medications. So, due to fact that he is 19.5 and resents like hell the medications that he was on...certainly wont do it. We're locked into a corner on all of this it seems. The psychiatric stated today that his abilty to be hold it together in the military for very long just really won't happen. So, I'm going to let my son "try" and live on his own (he really wants this I think...or at least thinks he does)...the psychiatric stated that this will likely be a distaster...but he is 19 and can do this if he wants. He cant even hold onto his pay check for more than 3 days...then he's broke. I timed it. That is the average. So, how is he going to pay rent if can't budget money or time. Tried so hard over the years. Just the angry response. "Let me manage my stuff the way I want to!!" Ok genius... you go. I say..let him do it and learn the hard way. Just for fun...took him to the gym with me after his psychiatric appointment hoping for a good work out with him...he must have slipped out of the gym and smoked it up and was a high as kite when I took him to applebys with me. You know...you get to a point where you just can't get mad anymore...just numb. He was silly and red eyed the whole time we were there. Goofy and a bit embarrassing...but I was starved...and I don't want this crap impacting my day either. I ate well!! [/QUOTE]
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