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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 357878" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I am also concerned about the antidepressant. It CAN cause hallucinations. A few of them caused me to have them and I ended up in the hospital and the doctors didn't believe it was the medications so they kept "upping" them. Being an adult, I threw them away myself and the hallucinations stopped so it WAS the medication. </p><p></p><p>Now if she had hallucinations before the drugs, then they aren't causing them (but could be making them worse). If she sees and hears things that aren't there, I am puzzled as to why they are calling her CD. That would mean she has some sort of serious mental illness, even possibly schizophrenia or some people hallucinate during bipolar mania and less often depression. CD isn't approrpriate, as far as I know, if a child has trouble with reality. </p><p></p><p>Are you feeling good about the place she's at? I've had a lot of dealings with inpatient hospitalizations and a few RTCs with foster kids and I was not impressed with the RTCs even a little bit. On the other hand, one of my three hospitalizations was magnificant, however that was in the day when you could stay until you were better (I was there for ten weeks when I was pregnant). I think you have to use your "mom gut" with your daughter. Sometimes professionals are wrong and make things even worse. I've had that experience too. If your daughter isn't improving then something is wrong with the treatment. From your description of her, in my opinion she is NOT bad...she is very ill. </p><p></p><p>On the self-harm, that is also not defiance at all. My daughter did it for a long time. Now that she is over the worst of her issues, she explained that she cut to "feel something." She had been sexually abused (long story) and felt dead inside for a long time. She cut and used drugs to counteract it for several years. Cutting is hard to stop. It becomes sort of like an addiction and requires additional therapy for this one issue. I had a friend who cut once and she said almost the same exact thing as my daughter did. Usually the child does not mean to kill herself by cutting, however I know how scary it is and I'm not into taking chances either. </p><p></p><p>I'm so sorry for your hard time and I really hope something more longterm good happens very, very soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 357878, member: 1550"] I am also concerned about the antidepressant. It CAN cause hallucinations. A few of them caused me to have them and I ended up in the hospital and the doctors didn't believe it was the medications so they kept "upping" them. Being an adult, I threw them away myself and the hallucinations stopped so it WAS the medication. Now if she had hallucinations before the drugs, then they aren't causing them (but could be making them worse). If she sees and hears things that aren't there, I am puzzled as to why they are calling her CD. That would mean she has some sort of serious mental illness, even possibly schizophrenia or some people hallucinate during bipolar mania and less often depression. CD isn't approrpriate, as far as I know, if a child has trouble with reality. Are you feeling good about the place she's at? I've had a lot of dealings with inpatient hospitalizations and a few RTCs with foster kids and I was not impressed with the RTCs even a little bit. On the other hand, one of my three hospitalizations was magnificant, however that was in the day when you could stay until you were better (I was there for ten weeks when I was pregnant). I think you have to use your "mom gut" with your daughter. Sometimes professionals are wrong and make things even worse. I've had that experience too. If your daughter isn't improving then something is wrong with the treatment. From your description of her, in my opinion she is NOT bad...she is very ill. On the self-harm, that is also not defiance at all. My daughter did it for a long time. Now that she is over the worst of her issues, she explained that she cut to "feel something." She had been sexually abused (long story) and felt dead inside for a long time. She cut and used drugs to counteract it for several years. Cutting is hard to stop. It becomes sort of like an addiction and requires additional therapy for this one issue. I had a friend who cut once and she said almost the same exact thing as my daughter did. Usually the child does not mean to kill herself by cutting, however I know how scary it is and I'm not into taking chances either. I'm so sorry for your hard time and I really hope something more longterm good happens very, very soon. [/QUOTE]
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