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My son is still in the phospital. Today is a month. Still off all medications. Waiting for Hope House in Albany to respond; they had a phone interview with him on Fri.
His dr. needs to fax over info. and will due so on Mon. They say my son is a candidate. This is a smaller facility; 14 beds.
Well I went to visit him on Fri. to bring a book; he's reading again, and right away I have suspicions somethings wrong. When I get into see him he is on a one-to-one; meaning, he does not go anywhere without a personal guard. Apparently, one of the other boys there; there are only 10, was planning to hurt one of the staff. Because of the large #of staff and the small # of kids they can be watched closely. Experience alarmed the staff, they checked the boy's room and found a homemade (shunt) spelling?The reason my son is in trouble is because this kid told three other boys; my son included, that he was planning to hurt staff and they should have told someone.
A psychiatric hospital is no place to be for a month. Kids are exposed to a lot of "bad" things. This kid was sent there because he told his dad that he was going to kill a kid and his dad believed him.
My son was raised very rural, driven to school, picked up from school etc. has little exposer to the world.But he is not stable enough to come home and wait.
I asked him why he would choose not to tell. He says "he is not a rat" So I Ask him why he would chooses loyalty to a person he has only known for a little over 2 weeks and not to the staff. Standard answer "I don't know".
I know he is afraid, if he does not buddy-up with these kids he feels he is in danger. On the other hand this child of mine has changed sooo much in the past 8 months I have no idea where the truth lies. Somewhere in the middle I guess........
Thanks for listening,
I am
seekinghope
His dr. needs to fax over info. and will due so on Mon. They say my son is a candidate. This is a smaller facility; 14 beds.
Well I went to visit him on Fri. to bring a book; he's reading again, and right away I have suspicions somethings wrong. When I get into see him he is on a one-to-one; meaning, he does not go anywhere without a personal guard. Apparently, one of the other boys there; there are only 10, was planning to hurt one of the staff. Because of the large #of staff and the small # of kids they can be watched closely. Experience alarmed the staff, they checked the boy's room and found a homemade (shunt) spelling?The reason my son is in trouble is because this kid told three other boys; my son included, that he was planning to hurt staff and they should have told someone.
A psychiatric hospital is no place to be for a month. Kids are exposed to a lot of "bad" things. This kid was sent there because he told his dad that he was going to kill a kid and his dad believed him.
My son was raised very rural, driven to school, picked up from school etc. has little exposer to the world.But he is not stable enough to come home and wait.
I asked him why he would choose not to tell. He says "he is not a rat" So I Ask him why he would chooses loyalty to a person he has only known for a little over 2 weeks and not to the staff. Standard answer "I don't know".
I know he is afraid, if he does not buddy-up with these kids he feels he is in danger. On the other hand this child of mine has changed sooo much in the past 8 months I have no idea where the truth lies. Somewhere in the middle I guess........
Thanks for listening,
I am
seekinghope