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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 658385" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I'm glad that you brought this up with his therapists in private. Of course he will be embarrassed because he will have to be told that the therapist knows, but if there was ever a cry for help, this is one.</p><p></p><p>One thing I found interesting - and I hope you won't find this judgmental, just an observation - is that you refer to your son's behavior by saying "I hoped it would stop..." and "it happened a couple of years ago..." rather than "I hoped <em>he</em> would stop" and "<em>he</em> did this a couple of years ago". <em>"It" </em>is not happening, your son is doing it. I honestly don't know why this struck me, but it did. If it helps, I'm glad, but don't worry if the observation is confusing. I could be way off track. I do know that sometimes little observations like this from an outsider can be enlightening, though.</p><p></p><p>It's easy to let a depressed person (social anxiety?) stay at home and not interact, but people <em>have to</em> get outside of their own small territory. (It seems to me that he is in a way marking his territory.) I think that getting him into some sort of outside the house group activity should be a goal that you all work on with his therapist. Not that <em>that</em> is where you're going to start, but that should be a goal in a set of goals.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 658385, member: 99"] I'm glad that you brought this up with his therapists in private. Of course he will be embarrassed because he will have to be told that the therapist knows, but if there was ever a cry for help, this is one. One thing I found interesting - and I hope you won't find this judgmental, just an observation - is that you refer to your son's behavior by saying "I hoped it would stop..." and "it happened a couple of years ago..." rather than "I hoped [I]he[/I] would stop" and "[I]he[/I] did this a couple of years ago". [I]"It" [/I]is not happening, your son is doing it. I honestly don't know why this struck me, but it did. If it helps, I'm glad, but don't worry if the observation is confusing. I could be way off track. I do know that sometimes little observations like this from an outsider can be enlightening, though. It's easy to let a depressed person (social anxiety?) stay at home and not interact, but people [I]have to[/I] get outside of their own small territory. (It seems to me that he is in a way marking his territory.) I think that getting him into some sort of outside the house group activity should be a goal that you all work on with his therapist. Not that [I]that[/I] is where you're going to start, but that should be a goal in a set of goals. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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