klmno
Active Member
Well, let's just say this is hypothetical anyway....
If a difficult child who had previously expressed temptations to hurt his mom, then seemed to get over that quickly after a talk and seemed to be doing very well for a while, suddenly became angry one night- to the point of being violent and causing some physical injury (not to the point of requiring medical care- but close) and expressing stronger feelings about his Mom- how could a Mom know or tell if this was psychosis, mania, change in medications, manipulative threats because he thinks he can end up taking control of the house, or if he's really walking around all the time believing that there is no problem other than his Mom and if he gets her out of his life his problems are solved- like he's bought into everything a family member had previously said to him?
So- those answers would lead to- then, should the mother take the difficult child to a psychiatric hospital, call police which leads to difficult child arrested (which would lead to long-term stay in detention), seek some means of therapuetic living environment- which would fail because difficult child can't get that in difficult child's state and difficult child would end up in long term detention or with that other family member mentioned above, or other (please offer any "other" you can think of here)?
Just curious...
If a difficult child who had previously expressed temptations to hurt his mom, then seemed to get over that quickly after a talk and seemed to be doing very well for a while, suddenly became angry one night- to the point of being violent and causing some physical injury (not to the point of requiring medical care- but close) and expressing stronger feelings about his Mom- how could a Mom know or tell if this was psychosis, mania, change in medications, manipulative threats because he thinks he can end up taking control of the house, or if he's really walking around all the time believing that there is no problem other than his Mom and if he gets her out of his life his problems are solved- like he's bought into everything a family member had previously said to him?
So- those answers would lead to- then, should the mother take the difficult child to a psychiatric hospital, call police which leads to difficult child arrested (which would lead to long-term stay in detention), seek some means of therapuetic living environment- which would fail because difficult child can't get that in difficult child's state and difficult child would end up in long term detention or with that other family member mentioned above, or other (please offer any "other" you can think of here)?
Just curious...