difficult child is ,. most probably bipolar--all the symptoms fit, and his two aunts are BiPolar (BP)
He's up there now, locked in his room, violent, screaming, throwing things, violent... And now the baby, my dear, darling, 3 yo easy child seems to have "caught" it... all afternoon, he's been screaming, too, kicking and giving orders... I couldn't let difficult child out when he shouted that he needed to use the bathroom, because I was in the middle of dealing with a violent temper tantrum from easy child... I think easy child acts this way because he's so largely ignored, the sweet, "good" child in this madhouse... difficult child peed on the floor of his room, quite on purpose, when I didn't come right when he called...
What do I do? Can I call social services and ask them to pick him up? We have an appointment to have him diagnosed, but it isn't until the end of september... everyone says how lucky we were to have gotten one so soon.. But what can we do in the meantime? The whole family is falling apart... If I tell my husband, he'll stay home from work tomorrow, and he's already at risk for losing his job for taking so much time off... Aside from needing the money to live, we can't even get help without the insurance... And husband is so stressed, worse than me, I think, except that he's among rational people all day and I'm here... but if I don't tell him he'll probably find out, and he gets so mad when I don't tell him everything... he said just last night that he can't trust me because there's so much about the kids that I try not to tell....
How do I get through this day, these next two months? And even after we go for the initial appointment, how do I survive the many months untit there can actually be some real help for us?
--C
He's up there now, locked in his room, violent, screaming, throwing things, violent... And now the baby, my dear, darling, 3 yo easy child seems to have "caught" it... all afternoon, he's been screaming, too, kicking and giving orders... I couldn't let difficult child out when he shouted that he needed to use the bathroom, because I was in the middle of dealing with a violent temper tantrum from easy child... I think easy child acts this way because he's so largely ignored, the sweet, "good" child in this madhouse... difficult child peed on the floor of his room, quite on purpose, when I didn't come right when he called...
What do I do? Can I call social services and ask them to pick him up? We have an appointment to have him diagnosed, but it isn't until the end of september... everyone says how lucky we were to have gotten one so soon.. But what can we do in the meantime? The whole family is falling apart... If I tell my husband, he'll stay home from work tomorrow, and he's already at risk for losing his job for taking so much time off... Aside from needing the money to live, we can't even get help without the insurance... And husband is so stressed, worse than me, I think, except that he's among rational people all day and I'm here... but if I don't tell him he'll probably find out, and he gets so mad when I don't tell him everything... he said just last night that he can't trust me because there's so much about the kids that I try not to tell....
How do I get through this day, these next two months? And even after we go for the initial appointment, how do I survive the many months untit there can actually be some real help for us?
--C