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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 508928" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>What was he like before the past two years? Did he suddenly change his friends and what kind of friends are they? Good kids? Kids that make you leery? Have you ever searched his phone, his Facebook, his room? A lot of parents won't breach a child's privacy, but when your child is in danger in my opinion it's best to look around for clues about what may be going on. That is how we first found out that there may be drugs going on outside of pot (we knew about the pot, she'd already been on probation). We also found letters to some boy she'd met online and if we hadn't read it, she would have run away from home to Colorado (we are in Wisconsin) and we would never have known where she had gone. We also found dark poetry (she is very gifted creatively) and scary pictures she had drawn...one that she named "My Personal Holocaust." It made me cry a lot. However, we got more information in her room than from any mental health professional. Not one of them figured out the depth of her despair or even that she was using drugs beyond pot. Sometimes we are the child's best defenders and we have to cross uncomfortable boundaries to get knowledge.</p><p></p><p>Falling grades, stealing, sudden violence (when a child hasn't been violent in the past) are all symtpoms of possible serious drug abuse. My daughter put her hand through a window and punched holes in our walls...that was not like her...it was new behavior. We were told she had bipolar. She is off drugs now and while still high strung during stress, she does not have symptoms of bipolar. Please be vigilant. </p><p></p><p>More huggggz!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 508928, member: 1550"] What was he like before the past two years? Did he suddenly change his friends and what kind of friends are they? Good kids? Kids that make you leery? Have you ever searched his phone, his Facebook, his room? A lot of parents won't breach a child's privacy, but when your child is in danger in my opinion it's best to look around for clues about what may be going on. That is how we first found out that there may be drugs going on outside of pot (we knew about the pot, she'd already been on probation). We also found letters to some boy she'd met online and if we hadn't read it, she would have run away from home to Colorado (we are in Wisconsin) and we would never have known where she had gone. We also found dark poetry (she is very gifted creatively) and scary pictures she had drawn...one that she named "My Personal Holocaust." It made me cry a lot. However, we got more information in her room than from any mental health professional. Not one of them figured out the depth of her despair or even that she was using drugs beyond pot. Sometimes we are the child's best defenders and we have to cross uncomfortable boundaries to get knowledge. Falling grades, stealing, sudden violence (when a child hasn't been violent in the past) are all symtpoms of possible serious drug abuse. My daughter put her hand through a window and punched holes in our walls...that was not like her...it was new behavior. We were told she had bipolar. She is off drugs now and while still high strung during stress, she does not have symptoms of bipolar. Please be vigilant. More huggggz! [/QUOTE]
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