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Is there a lock-in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) for 17 yo?
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 478649"><p>Thomasc - Sounds like you had a very difficult experience and I am sorry you went through that. However you are making great generalizations that are probably not true for everyone. I have no idea of the details of your situation or the place you went to. My guess is that your parents were doing what they thought was best at the time.</p><p></p><p>I know that is true for us, we did what we thought was right when we sent our son to Wilderness and then to a TBS. He went to wilderness willingly and got a lot out of it.... he was angry about going to the TBS and is probably still angry with us for sending him there. I really don't know anymore if it was the right or wrong thing. It certainly did not solve all his problems but it sure helped when he first came back and then he did go back to using drugs which sent him down a terrible path. He is having to learn some hard truths now several years later. However I also think if we had not done it he might very well be dead by now so it is really hard to know. We had done all we could do at that point... and it gave him a year without serioius drug use and it also gave some much needed space to my daughter who needed to live in a house without all the chaos and trauma that was living with my son. </p><p></p><p>I think there are a lot of differences between different TBS's... and I do think you need to be careful when generalizing.</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 478649"] Thomasc - Sounds like you had a very difficult experience and I am sorry you went through that. However you are making great generalizations that are probably not true for everyone. I have no idea of the details of your situation or the place you went to. My guess is that your parents were doing what they thought was best at the time. I know that is true for us, we did what we thought was right when we sent our son to Wilderness and then to a TBS. He went to wilderness willingly and got a lot out of it.... he was angry about going to the TBS and is probably still angry with us for sending him there. I really don't know anymore if it was the right or wrong thing. It certainly did not solve all his problems but it sure helped when he first came back and then he did go back to using drugs which sent him down a terrible path. He is having to learn some hard truths now several years later. However I also think if we had not done it he might very well be dead by now so it is really hard to know. We had done all we could do at that point... and it gave him a year without serioius drug use and it also gave some much needed space to my daughter who needed to live in a house without all the chaos and trauma that was living with my son. I think there are a lot of differences between different TBS's... and I do think you need to be careful when generalizing. TL [/QUOTE]
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