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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 326219" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Welcome. </p><p></p><p>You do have your hands full that is for sure! </p><p></p><p>I arrived here almost 11 years ago when my difficult child was 12 pretty much in the same straits as you are. I thought I had tried everything I could find available. Done everything that the professionals we had seen had advised. Had already sent him through a 16 month stint at wilderness camp which he flunked out of. I was ready to tear my hair out and I had just bought a computer and the second thing I searched for was "kids with behavior disorders" and this site popped up. I have to admit that the first thing I searched for was sex chats...lmao. (By the way, Im a grown up difficult child!)</p><p></p><p>My son was really smart too ...at one time. He still is smart but medications have dulled some of that. Plus he quit school in 9th grade and he just thinks he is too far gone to even attempt to fix that. I tell him all the time it isnt too late but he doesnt believe me.</p><p></p><p>I did eventually have to have my son sent to various group homes and finally he spent several months...7 or 8 I think in a psychiatric residential treatment facility when he was almost 17. Most of his teen years between 14 and 17 were spent in and out of various treatment facilities. We finally gave up the ghost at 17 and he came home to stay. </p><p></p><p>It hasnt been peaches and fuzzy slippers. He was hell on wheels from 18 or so until we kicked him out at 22. That was the single best decision we ever made. We really should have done it much earlier. Probably if we had done it maybe 2 years earlier he would have shown growth earlier but I was scared for him, I didnt think he could make it...yada yada. I probably held him back. My mistake I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 326219, member: 1514"] Welcome. You do have your hands full that is for sure! I arrived here almost 11 years ago when my difficult child was 12 pretty much in the same straits as you are. I thought I had tried everything I could find available. Done everything that the professionals we had seen had advised. Had already sent him through a 16 month stint at wilderness camp which he flunked out of. I was ready to tear my hair out and I had just bought a computer and the second thing I searched for was "kids with behavior disorders" and this site popped up. I have to admit that the first thing I searched for was sex chats...lmao. (By the way, Im a grown up difficult child!) My son was really smart too ...at one time. He still is smart but medications have dulled some of that. Plus he quit school in 9th grade and he just thinks he is too far gone to even attempt to fix that. I tell him all the time it isnt too late but he doesnt believe me. I did eventually have to have my son sent to various group homes and finally he spent several months...7 or 8 I think in a psychiatric residential treatment facility when he was almost 17. Most of his teen years between 14 and 17 were spent in and out of various treatment facilities. We finally gave up the ghost at 17 and he came home to stay. It hasnt been peaches and fuzzy slippers. He was hell on wheels from 18 or so until we kicked him out at 22. That was the single best decision we ever made. We really should have done it much earlier. Probably if we had done it maybe 2 years earlier he would have shown growth earlier but I was scared for him, I didnt think he could make it...yada yada. I probably held him back. My mistake I think. [/QUOTE]
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