feelinalone
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You are certainly in a difficult situation. I agree with therapist - stabilization first. Safety first.
in my humble opinion, if it takes medications for your difficult child to make safe choices & use non aggressive reactions I'd go that route. (Have with both of my children - not an easy decision but one I've had to make to have a level of safety around here.)
Let go of the "diagnosis" for the time being. As your difficult child is being tested; as medications are added or decreased & stopped the diagnosis will slowly shine through. A treatment plan will all of a sudden become effective. Given this is mental/emotional illness this is not a hard science. There isn't any one test or indicator of what may or may not be going on. That is the most frustrating part of this.
by the way, I don't say what I've said off the top of my head. I remember one day telling psychiatrist - "call her pregnant, just treat her". This was after an ER admit & we were trying to get kt safely off the ceiling. The top ER doctor walked in & I asked him to "bomb" kt. Tranq her so she is safe - this level wasn't good for any of us. We could work out the whys & wherefores later. He agreed.
(((hugs)))
in my humble opinion, if it takes medications for your difficult child to make safe choices & use non aggressive reactions I'd go that route. (Have with both of my children - not an easy decision but one I've had to make to have a level of safety around here.)
Let go of the "diagnosis" for the time being. As your difficult child is being tested; as medications are added or decreased & stopped the diagnosis will slowly shine through. A treatment plan will all of a sudden become effective. Given this is mental/emotional illness this is not a hard science. There isn't any one test or indicator of what may or may not be going on. That is the most frustrating part of this.
by the way, I don't say what I've said off the top of my head. I remember one day telling psychiatrist - "call her pregnant, just treat her". This was after an ER admit & we were trying to get kt safely off the ceiling. The top ER doctor walked in & I asked him to "bomb" kt. Tranq her so she is safe - this level wasn't good for any of us. We could work out the whys & wherefores later. He agreed.
(((hugs)))
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ML
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Welcome! Bless your heart girl, you are going through some really tough stuff. Stay strong, lean on us and know that you aren't alone. xo ML
BusynMember
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I'm sorry you're having such a hard time.
By "testing" I didn't mean for physical causes. I meant taking him to a neuropsychologist so he would have a huge battery of tests in all areas of his functioning. Psychiatrists don't usually do testing. NeuroPsychs can give you a really good idea of what's going on and lead you on the right path. Ours tested my difficult-to-figure-out son for twelve hours before he drew any final conclusions. My son has done well since seeing him.
By "testing" I didn't mean for physical causes. I meant taking him to a neuropsychologist so he would have a huge battery of tests in all areas of his functioning. Psychiatrists don't usually do testing. NeuroPsychs can give you a really good idea of what's going on and lead you on the right path. Ours tested my difficult-to-figure-out son for twelve hours before he drew any final conclusions. My son has done well since seeing him.
