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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 158237" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>My experience in calling 911 for a raging teenage boy is that you only make the situation worse and you prolong the raging. Actually, I never did it but I could see what happened when my son even <em>thought</em> I was reaching for the phone and what happened when others (once it was my son himself) called 911.</p><p></p><p>If he isn't to that point yet, he will will shortly be big enough that ambulance personnel won't touch him. Police will be called. Considering his legal problems already, that might not be in his best interest. Nor is it likely to get him to calm down; police presence and his fear of what they could and might do are more likely to lead to escalation of the raging. And, at some point you have to worry about <em>how</em> police will respond. Police respond to physical violence with force. They carry guns and they do shoot raging, mental ill people -- particular males. </p><p></p><p>There is a big difference between how emergency personnel respond to prepubescent children and almost full grown boys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 158237, member: 1498"] My experience in calling 911 for a raging teenage boy is that you only make the situation worse and you prolong the raging. Actually, I never did it but I could see what happened when my son even [I]thought[/I] I was reaching for the phone and what happened when others (once it was my son himself) called 911. If he isn't to that point yet, he will will shortly be big enough that ambulance personnel won't touch him. Police will be called. Considering his legal problems already, that might not be in his best interest. Nor is it likely to get him to calm down; police presence and his fear of what they could and might do are more likely to lead to escalation of the raging. And, at some point you have to worry about [I]how[/I] police will respond. Police respond to physical violence with force. They carry guns and they do shoot raging, mental ill people -- particular males. There is a big difference between how emergency personnel respond to prepubescent children and almost full grown boys. [/QUOTE]
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