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I'm reading about parents who did send their child to a Residential Treatment Center (RTC)...
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<blockquote data-quote="jbrain" data-source="post: 256335" data-attributes="member: 3450"><p>Hi Doll,</p><p>just wanted to let you know that I sent my dtr to a highly regarded Residential Treatment Center (RTC) out in Utah (we live in upstate NY) when she was 16 and she spent 8 1/2 months there. She did great there but relapsed worse than ever when she returned home. She ended up in a dual diagnosis facility in our state when she was 17 and managed to get her GED there. When she left that facility she was nearly 18 and moved out of our house with her boyfriend and took up where she left off before going.</p><p></p><p>Just wanted you to know that an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is no magic cure and it is not always successful, in fact I think the success rate is actually pretty low. What it did do for us was give us a break and it allowed my younger dtr to show us all the problems she had been bottling up all that time while we focused on the older dtr.</p><p></p><p>Also, I guess it did give my dtr a toolbox so to speak--she could use what she learned at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) if she chose to. I often wish I had not spent the incredible amount of money that we did to send her--we now cannot retire--we took out a loan for $70,000 dollars (spent 50,000 at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC)) and live paycheck to paycheck. I can't afford to send my younger dtr to college, we spent all the money on her sister. I'm not sure it was worth it. She is doing much better but for all I know she might have done better anyway with maturity!</p><p></p><p>So, please don't kick yourself too much--you really don't know what the outcome would have been had you sent your difficult child to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC).</p><p></p><p>Jane</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jbrain, post: 256335, member: 3450"] Hi Doll, just wanted to let you know that I sent my dtr to a highly regarded Residential Treatment Center (RTC) out in Utah (we live in upstate NY) when she was 16 and she spent 8 1/2 months there. She did great there but relapsed worse than ever when she returned home. She ended up in a dual diagnosis facility in our state when she was 17 and managed to get her GED there. When she left that facility she was nearly 18 and moved out of our house with her boyfriend and took up where she left off before going. Just wanted you to know that an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is no magic cure and it is not always successful, in fact I think the success rate is actually pretty low. What it did do for us was give us a break and it allowed my younger dtr to show us all the problems she had been bottling up all that time while we focused on the older dtr. Also, I guess it did give my dtr a toolbox so to speak--she could use what she learned at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) if she chose to. I often wish I had not spent the incredible amount of money that we did to send her--we now cannot retire--we took out a loan for $70,000 dollars (spent 50,000 at the Residential Treatment Center (RTC)) and live paycheck to paycheck. I can't afford to send my younger dtr to college, we spent all the money on her sister. I'm not sure it was worth it. She is doing much better but for all I know she might have done better anyway with maturity! So, please don't kick yourself too much--you really don't know what the outcome would have been had you sent your difficult child to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC). Jane [/QUOTE]
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