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<blockquote data-quote="busywend" data-source="post: 81993" data-attributes="member: 391"><p>I recall 11 & 12 - vividly. PTSD. </p><p></p><p>11 & 12 were the very worst years for us. This was when my difficult child started hiding her medications, refused to bathe, lied like you can not believe, had the police called on her for threatening to shoot someone with a gun that she does not have, told kids at school she was on house arrest except for school (when she had never been involved with the law), told people her grandfather had died when in fact he had not, refused to get out of the car at EVERY SINGLE therapy session, claimed she hated every meal I cooked - including all the foods she had loved up until that year, and the straw that broke the camel's back was when she came after me with a hammer out of anger for not being able to do something due to being punished. </p><p></p><p>I tell ya, that was the time I went in for an anti-depressant, for the first time ever. I literally did not have it in me to do it anymore. I had no energy left. I went to my own counselor and cried more there than I had in years. It was such a relief to talk about it with someone. </p><p></p><p>What I learned was that I was not supermom. I could not do it all. I could not be a perfect mom to this child. I could not do it alone. She required several people to parent her. </p><p></p><p>So, send her to your mother's and DO NOT feel bad about it for one single second. </p><p> :warrior:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="busywend, post: 81993, member: 391"] I recall 11 & 12 - vividly. PTSD. 11 & 12 were the very worst years for us. This was when my difficult child started hiding her medications, refused to bathe, lied like you can not believe, had the police called on her for threatening to shoot someone with a gun that she does not have, told kids at school she was on house arrest except for school (when she had never been involved with the law), told people her grandfather had died when in fact he had not, refused to get out of the car at EVERY SINGLE therapy session, claimed she hated every meal I cooked - including all the foods she had loved up until that year, and the straw that broke the camel's back was when she came after me with a hammer out of anger for not being able to do something due to being punished. I tell ya, that was the time I went in for an anti-depressant, for the first time ever. I literally did not have it in me to do it anymore. I had no energy left. I went to my own counselor and cried more there than I had in years. It was such a relief to talk about it with someone. What I learned was that I was not supermom. I could not do it all. I could not be a perfect mom to this child. I could not do it alone. She required several people to parent her. So, send her to your mother's and DO NOT feel bad about it for one single second. [img]:warrior:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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