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<blockquote data-quote="jal" data-source="post: 358759" data-attributes="member: 3477"><p>been there done that too. My difficult child had just turned 6 and was in for 3 weeks. It was the most upsetting, scary thing we'd ever been through. The first night there he called home crying, he'd never been away from home except one or 2 nights with-his grandparents (and that used to cause anxiety). He had to be there to be safe because he became unstable during a psychiatrist monitored medication wash. The psychiatric hospital stay gave husband and I some much needed respite and the result of the stay helped us to get difficult child stable. We also then got access to wrap around in home services for our difficult child at no cost to us through our local Child and Family Agency (CFA). We also became involved with voluntary services through DCF. They coupled with our local CFA and offered respite, mentoring and also helped to provide funds for our difficult child to go to camp in the summer. We partnered with them for about 1 yr. We completed the in-home and voluntarily left the DCF program as difficult child improved and remained stable.</p><p></p><p>This is a very heart wrenching time for you, but it also time to take care of you. Hopefully, your psychiatric hospital will work with you to find programs or people who will help once your child is released. The CFA was in our back yard and we didn't even know it. At the time, the school never told us (even though the SD had been awesome in working on IEP's and granted every request we'd ever made, etc with us) and other local agencies never recommended them either. </p><p></p><p>And I agree with what Fran said...it is much more traumatic for you than difficult child...After the first couple of nights our difficult child stopped calling us. We visited every other day with him the whole time he was there. Once in a while he mentions it "when I was at the hospital"...but he never speaks negatively about it. The only negative that came out of it is that before he went in he would eat quite a few different veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, carrots, etc.) and when he came out he wouldn't touch anyone of them. To this day he'll only do green beans...They definately didn't make him eat his veggies there =)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jal, post: 358759, member: 3477"] been there done that too. My difficult child had just turned 6 and was in for 3 weeks. It was the most upsetting, scary thing we'd ever been through. The first night there he called home crying, he'd never been away from home except one or 2 nights with-his grandparents (and that used to cause anxiety). He had to be there to be safe because he became unstable during a psychiatrist monitored medication wash. The psychiatric hospital stay gave husband and I some much needed respite and the result of the stay helped us to get difficult child stable. We also then got access to wrap around in home services for our difficult child at no cost to us through our local Child and Family Agency (CFA). We also became involved with voluntary services through DCF. They coupled with our local CFA and offered respite, mentoring and also helped to provide funds for our difficult child to go to camp in the summer. We partnered with them for about 1 yr. We completed the in-home and voluntarily left the DCF program as difficult child improved and remained stable. This is a very heart wrenching time for you, but it also time to take care of you. Hopefully, your psychiatric hospital will work with you to find programs or people who will help once your child is released. The CFA was in our back yard and we didn't even know it. At the time, the school never told us (even though the SD had been awesome in working on IEP's and granted every request we'd ever made, etc with us) and other local agencies never recommended them either. And I agree with what Fran said...it is much more traumatic for you than difficult child...After the first couple of nights our difficult child stopped calling us. We visited every other day with him the whole time he was there. Once in a while he mentions it "when I was at the hospital"...but he never speaks negatively about it. The only negative that came out of it is that before he went in he would eat quite a few different veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, carrots, etc.) and when he came out he wouldn't touch anyone of them. To this day he'll only do green beans...They definately didn't make him eat his veggies there =) [/QUOTE]
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