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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 176351" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>It seems though, that whether the diagnosis is right or not, things clearly aren't working the way they are. If mental health treatment <em>can</em> help him, then that needs to be pursued now because if he gets caught up in Department of Juvenile Justice without family pushing for treatment, I doubt he'll have any chance of getting it until after Department of Juvenile Justice is finished with him. Plus, at least in our experience and I realize that it could be a lot different other places, when I went in there (court) with a treatment plan, they worked with it (and in their minds, are still working with it- even though I feel like they are causing more problems then they are solving); when I went in there without a plan to present, they threw other people in there to take over and pursued a plan themselves. </p><p></p><p>I would think that your Dad might be a lot happier if he could see a plan being formed and pursued, too. I know it seems like you have to wait to see what is going to happen in court first, and to a certain extent, that is true. But if you leave it all up to them, you might not have any choices left for you or difficult child by the time they are finished. And, I sincerely hope that you are not waiting on S2BX to jump in there and contribute to the cause. This is why in a previous post, I strongly suggested that you start viewing yourself as a single parent and take control of the situation. It probably came across real harsh- which was not my intent. It's just that I believe that if YOU don't take control of this situation by pursuing solutions now, someone else is going to and you might not agree that their solutions are in your or difficult child's best interest, but you'll be stuck with them unless you go to court to get them changed.</p><p></p><p>If you got difficult child in a psychiatric hospital, which by the way, here that is easier to do if you take him to the ER than if you call cops- anyway, if you get him in one, then tell them that he cannot come back home, there is better chance that he ends up in a therapuetic environment of some sort, I think.</p><p></p><p>PS- I did what Janet says below the last time my difficult child was arrested- I told cops when they called me that my son had mental health issues right away. It didn't help him legally, of course, but it helped them know how to deal with him better. I will do that again in the future if he gets arrested again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 176351, member: 3699"] It seems though, that whether the diagnosis is right or not, things clearly aren't working the way they are. If mental health treatment [I]can[/I] help him, then that needs to be pursued now because if he gets caught up in Department of Juvenile Justice without family pushing for treatment, I doubt he'll have any chance of getting it until after Department of Juvenile Justice is finished with him. Plus, at least in our experience and I realize that it could be a lot different other places, when I went in there (court) with a treatment plan, they worked with it (and in their minds, are still working with it- even though I feel like they are causing more problems then they are solving); when I went in there without a plan to present, they threw other people in there to take over and pursued a plan themselves. I would think that your Dad might be a lot happier if he could see a plan being formed and pursued, too. I know it seems like you have to wait to see what is going to happen in court first, and to a certain extent, that is true. But if you leave it all up to them, you might not have any choices left for you or difficult child by the time they are finished. And, I sincerely hope that you are not waiting on S2BX to jump in there and contribute to the cause. This is why in a previous post, I strongly suggested that you start viewing yourself as a single parent and take control of the situation. It probably came across real harsh- which was not my intent. It's just that I believe that if YOU don't take control of this situation by pursuing solutions now, someone else is going to and you might not agree that their solutions are in your or difficult child's best interest, but you'll be stuck with them unless you go to court to get them changed. If you got difficult child in a psychiatric hospital, which by the way, here that is easier to do if you take him to the ER than if you call cops- anyway, if you get him in one, then tell them that he cannot come back home, there is better chance that he ends up in a therapuetic environment of some sort, I think. PS- I did what Janet says below the last time my difficult child was arrested- I told cops when they called me that my son had mental health issues right away. It didn't help him legally, of course, but it helped them know how to deal with him better. I will do that again in the future if he gets arrested again. [/QUOTE]
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