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Emotionless WHAT DO YOU DO when they simply don't care?
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<blockquote data-quote="comatheart" data-source="post: 467901"><p>Thank you for your responses. </p><p></p><p>I agree, he is depressed. I think that has become very clear in the past week. He swears he is not depressed. He has sworn this for over a year to us and his counselor and old psychiatrist. Everyone could see it but him. </p><p></p><p>Someone asked....He isn't without emotion, his emotions are just not appropriate. For example, on Thursday a child in the neighborhood came to our door after school and told my husband that our son had been messing with kids on the bus and threatening them with mace! The kids here all ride the same bus K-12, so there were teenagers and small children around him. My husband came into the kitchen to discuss it with our son who denied doing anything wrong as usual. Turns out he had gone into our room and stole the mace from us and taken it to school "for protection". He could have been expelled from school for threatening kids with mace if he had been caught. When we explained that to him, all he can manage to do is smile about it! He didn't care one bit!</p><p></p><p>He goes through these ups and downs in mood. When he gets this careless attitude, his grades (which are very good otherwise, he is even enrolled in AP courses) plummet, he does stupid things such as lie, steal, cut himself, injure or threaten to injure his siblings. We've caught him abusing drugs (marijuana) in the past. He swears he's clean right now and hasn't touched drugs since we last caught him. He will be submitting a drug test tomorrow for the court so we'll see....</p><p></p><p>It's just so frustrating. It seems none of our punishments work because he doesn't care. Therefore he doesn't learn from his experiences and continues to do hurtful and illegal things. We're basically raising a cold hearted criminal! We try to be good parents and are very involved and consistent but with this kid, it simply doesn't matter what we do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="comatheart, post: 467901"] Thank you for your responses. I agree, he is depressed. I think that has become very clear in the past week. He swears he is not depressed. He has sworn this for over a year to us and his counselor and old psychiatrist. Everyone could see it but him. Someone asked....He isn't without emotion, his emotions are just not appropriate. For example, on Thursday a child in the neighborhood came to our door after school and told my husband that our son had been messing with kids on the bus and threatening them with mace! The kids here all ride the same bus K-12, so there were teenagers and small children around him. My husband came into the kitchen to discuss it with our son who denied doing anything wrong as usual. Turns out he had gone into our room and stole the mace from us and taken it to school "for protection". He could have been expelled from school for threatening kids with mace if he had been caught. When we explained that to him, all he can manage to do is smile about it! He didn't care one bit! He goes through these ups and downs in mood. When he gets this careless attitude, his grades (which are very good otherwise, he is even enrolled in AP courses) plummet, he does stupid things such as lie, steal, cut himself, injure or threaten to injure his siblings. We've caught him abusing drugs (marijuana) in the past. He swears he's clean right now and hasn't touched drugs since we last caught him. He will be submitting a drug test tomorrow for the court so we'll see.... It's just so frustrating. It seems none of our punishments work because he doesn't care. Therefore he doesn't learn from his experiences and continues to do hurtful and illegal things. We're basically raising a cold hearted criminal! We try to be good parents and are very involved and consistent but with this kid, it simply doesn't matter what we do. [/QUOTE]
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