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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 644594" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>One more thought that hit me as I read the last, newer responses, which were excellent. It won't help you, but it's an observation.</p><p></p><p>difficult children will use "shock and awe" words to get our attention if nothing else makes us do what they want.</p><p></p><p>"I will kill myself and the kids."</p><p></p><p>"I will go to Wisconsin and shoot and kill you."</p><p></p><p>Again, and this is just my own layperson take on it and could be wrong, it is more personality-disordered crapola than mental illness. Remember crazy Susan Smith who drove her kids into the water, getting out herself? She is not on anti-psychotics, which is for t he truly mentally ill who do not know how to tell reality from fantasy. Andrea Yates thought God was talking to her and killed her kids, but not in anger...in a delusional act of, what she thought was, love. She's in a hospital for the criminally insane.</p><p></p><p>Big difference.</p><p></p><p>Our difficult children are not psychotic. They know fantasy from reality. And t he reality is if they use "shock and awe" statements, we will react and maybe do what they want. I mean, you CAN'T ignore those types of statements so you HAVE to react.</p><p></p><p>And t hey may get what they want, which is why they said such horrible things in t he first place.</p><p></p><p>Thankfully for you, the grandkids are with a stable, loving man.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, just my thoughts. Take what you like and leave the rest and try to have a serene day knowing that Dad will protect your precious grandchildren.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 644594, member: 1550"] One more thought that hit me as I read the last, newer responses, which were excellent. It won't help you, but it's an observation. difficult children will use "shock and awe" words to get our attention if nothing else makes us do what they want. "I will kill myself and the kids." "I will go to Wisconsin and shoot and kill you." Again, and this is just my own layperson take on it and could be wrong, it is more personality-disordered crapola than mental illness. Remember crazy Susan Smith who drove her kids into the water, getting out herself? She is not on anti-psychotics, which is for t he truly mentally ill who do not know how to tell reality from fantasy. Andrea Yates thought God was talking to her and killed her kids, but not in anger...in a delusional act of, what she thought was, love. She's in a hospital for the criminally insane. Big difference. Our difficult children are not psychotic. They know fantasy from reality. And t he reality is if they use "shock and awe" statements, we will react and maybe do what they want. I mean, you CAN'T ignore those types of statements so you HAVE to react. And t hey may get what they want, which is why they said such horrible things in t he first place. Thankfully for you, the grandkids are with a stable, loving man. Anyhow, just my thoughts. Take what you like and leave the rest and try to have a serene day knowing that Dad will protect your precious grandchildren. [/QUOTE]
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