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<blockquote data-quote="neednewtechnique" data-source="post: 174136" data-attributes="member: 3527"><p>Well, difficult child has a very long psychiatric history, we have talked about her mood issues several times before, and I don't believe that her psychiatrist at the hospital is even questioning any of her diagnoses...he just didn't like her medication for some reason. Yes, she is in acute care at a psychiatric hospital, one that apparently has a great reputation. </p><p></p><p>difficult child was admitted in the middle of the night on Wednesday Night/Thursday Morning. When I came home from work on Wednesday, difficult child was very ungracefully recovering from a major meltdown that she had sometime that afternoon while we were gone to work. She took one of my steak knives out of my kitchen and cut herself up pretty bad. She was not trying to kill herself, she was just cutting, but she threw herself into a frenzy and really messed up her arms badly. Nothing deep enough to need stitches or anything, it wasnt the severity of the cuts that was causing a problem, it was the NUMBER of cuts she put on herself. There were hundreds of them, they completely covered the insides of both of her arms from her elbows to her wrists. Sorry, I know this is a bit graphic, but I don't know how else to explain it. Since she was not in real 911 emergency of bleeding to death or anything, we didn't rush to the ER right away, because I had my other small children home and needed to make arrangements for them before I could leave. So I just made sure she stayed right with me so that I could keep an eye on her until we could get to the hospital. Once we got to the ER, they had to get someone to come and evaluate her, and even though the psychiatric hospital she went to is an hour and a half away, they have a "sattelite office" in our town with a few psychiatric staff that can do evaluations for them, and they called one of them to come in and meet with our difficult child. They determined that she needed to be admitted to the psychiatric hospital, so they transported her straight from the ER to the hospital. </p><p></p><p>All of the diagnosis's listed on my profile for her are old, meaning that they did not get assigned to her in the psychiatric hospital. The only thing they have been talking about at the psychiatric hospital that is new is a possible Reactive Attachment Disorder. They were informed in advance that her normal psychiatrist has concerns about her showing several signs of Borderline Personality Disorder, even though they don't diagnose it in kids, they still watch for the signs. But even with a warning about it, they seem VERY surprised by how STRONGLY she exhibits those symptoms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neednewtechnique, post: 174136, member: 3527"] Well, difficult child has a very long psychiatric history, we have talked about her mood issues several times before, and I don't believe that her psychiatrist at the hospital is even questioning any of her diagnoses...he just didn't like her medication for some reason. Yes, she is in acute care at a psychiatric hospital, one that apparently has a great reputation. difficult child was admitted in the middle of the night on Wednesday Night/Thursday Morning. When I came home from work on Wednesday, difficult child was very ungracefully recovering from a major meltdown that she had sometime that afternoon while we were gone to work. She took one of my steak knives out of my kitchen and cut herself up pretty bad. She was not trying to kill herself, she was just cutting, but she threw herself into a frenzy and really messed up her arms badly. Nothing deep enough to need stitches or anything, it wasnt the severity of the cuts that was causing a problem, it was the NUMBER of cuts she put on herself. There were hundreds of them, they completely covered the insides of both of her arms from her elbows to her wrists. Sorry, I know this is a bit graphic, but I don't know how else to explain it. Since she was not in real 911 emergency of bleeding to death or anything, we didn't rush to the ER right away, because I had my other small children home and needed to make arrangements for them before I could leave. So I just made sure she stayed right with me so that I could keep an eye on her until we could get to the hospital. Once we got to the ER, they had to get someone to come and evaluate her, and even though the psychiatric hospital she went to is an hour and a half away, they have a "sattelite office" in our town with a few psychiatric staff that can do evaluations for them, and they called one of them to come in and meet with our difficult child. They determined that she needed to be admitted to the psychiatric hospital, so they transported her straight from the ER to the hospital. All of the diagnosis's listed on my profile for her are old, meaning that they did not get assigned to her in the psychiatric hospital. The only thing they have been talking about at the psychiatric hospital that is new is a possible Reactive Attachment Disorder. They were informed in advance that her normal psychiatrist has concerns about her showing several signs of Borderline Personality Disorder, even though they don't diagnose it in kids, they still watch for the signs. But even with a warning about it, they seem VERY surprised by how STRONGLY she exhibits those symptoms. [/QUOTE]
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