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I'd appreciate your opinions of something a psychiatrist did - is this normal?
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<blockquote data-quote="STRESSEDTOMAX" data-source="post: 486204" data-attributes="member: 3512"><p>WFH: I can SO relate to most of what you posted, especially your screen name. Your son sounds a lot like our Tommy, who's ten. The only way I used to be able to deal with him was to lock myself in a room and not give him any attention until he calmed down. I'm not sure that that's what you're "supposed" to do but in my humble opinion, "supposed" went out the window a long time ago...like six years. I can really relate to your feelings of relief with your husband having a therapist also. I WISH my husband would see a therapist and I wish he would take something for anxiety. I always worry he's gonna have a heart attack from all this constant stress. I love my son soo much but he has put such a burden on our marriage. I felt exactly as you do about medications (I'm still not positive about what he's taking but I KNOW he needs something). I think we are all afraid but without medications and even with them at times, Tommy is almost impossible to control. My husband goes to NY once a month for three or four days (he's away right now) and I am a lot more apprehensive than I usually am. Most of the times Tommy wound up hospitalized (another thing I thought I could NEVER do) was when I was alone with him. </p><p></p><p>I don't know what to say about the psychiatrist...did he say why he did that? One thing I have learned though is if something bothers you, there's usually a reason for it. I'd go with my gut. I really sympathize with all the roadblocks...Tommy has yet to be with the right therapist but I know we'll find one. I remember being ELATED when we found a Christian therapist for him near our house who actually took our insurance...what a great feeling. But...weeks later I realized that he was not interested in helping Tommy learn how to work out his anger; he kept talking about the fact that if his parent's couldn't control him, he would have to go to a home!! I was soo disappointed. The next therapist took twenty minutes to express a thought, so that didn't work...it really is a very frustrating process but I feel it's almost better to be with no therapist for a period of time than the wrong one. Anyway, sorry this was so long. I have been and still am to a large degree where you are. You are not alone. I have decided that the people on this forum need to be my best friends...they let me know it's not ME or anything I've done to cause all this and give me great comfort. HUGS.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STRESSEDTOMAX, post: 486204, member: 3512"] WFH: I can SO relate to most of what you posted, especially your screen name. Your son sounds a lot like our Tommy, who's ten. The only way I used to be able to deal with him was to lock myself in a room and not give him any attention until he calmed down. I'm not sure that that's what you're "supposed" to do but in my humble opinion, "supposed" went out the window a long time ago...like six years. I can really relate to your feelings of relief with your husband having a therapist also. I WISH my husband would see a therapist and I wish he would take something for anxiety. I always worry he's gonna have a heart attack from all this constant stress. I love my son soo much but he has put such a burden on our marriage. I felt exactly as you do about medications (I'm still not positive about what he's taking but I KNOW he needs something). I think we are all afraid but without medications and even with them at times, Tommy is almost impossible to control. My husband goes to NY once a month for three or four days (he's away right now) and I am a lot more apprehensive than I usually am. Most of the times Tommy wound up hospitalized (another thing I thought I could NEVER do) was when I was alone with him. I don't know what to say about the psychiatrist...did he say why he did that? One thing I have learned though is if something bothers you, there's usually a reason for it. I'd go with my gut. I really sympathize with all the roadblocks...Tommy has yet to be with the right therapist but I know we'll find one. I remember being ELATED when we found a Christian therapist for him near our house who actually took our insurance...what a great feeling. But...weeks later I realized that he was not interested in helping Tommy learn how to work out his anger; he kept talking about the fact that if his parent's couldn't control him, he would have to go to a home!! I was soo disappointed. The next therapist took twenty minutes to express a thought, so that didn't work...it really is a very frustrating process but I feel it's almost better to be with no therapist for a period of time than the wrong one. Anyway, sorry this was so long. I have been and still am to a large degree where you are. You are not alone. I have decided that the people on this forum need to be my best friends...they let me know it's not ME or anything I've done to cause all this and give me great comfort. HUGS. [/QUOTE]
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