CeCe has just fallen asleep after pitching a fit for 3 hours. Again. tonight. Except that today she started at 7 so it's ending a little earlier - yesterday she started about this time. Her psychiatrist is waiting to admit her, if only another child's parents would pick her up - she was discharged hours ago but they are having "car trouble" (or maybe hoping to stretch it for just one more quiet night).
husband sat up with her while she screamed and wrecked things in her room. He doesn't get it that she'll quiet down sooner if you don't give her anything to respond to, so he escalates things without knowing he's doing it. And now he's saying "she's asleep, nothing we can do." Like H***!, when the doctor calls, throw her butt into the car - she doesn't have to be awake to be admitted! Which he'll eventually do when I make a stink (so it'll be my fault and he'll be the good guy).
And to top it off the guardianship papers are MIA - all of them, so I'm feeling suspicious. It's just the sort of thing that CeCe would destroy if she could. She's deep into the fantasy that she doesn't belong with us and she'd get to go back to her bparents if only we were out of her life. psychiatric hospital says we have to have them unless she's admitted as a "10-13" (same as Baker Act?) even though we provided them last year (ridiculous) - hopefully the psychiatrist will do that.
Thankfully the psychiatrist does get it and we've got a decent community mental health support team. It's just a long road to racking up the admissions to get her into Residential Treatment Center (RTC). She tends to act out at night, and we have to weigh the benefits of an exhausting hours long admission process IF there's a bed against the lost sleep and lost work the next day.
Thanks for letting me ramble and rant ...
PJ
husband sat up with her while she screamed and wrecked things in her room. He doesn't get it that she'll quiet down sooner if you don't give her anything to respond to, so he escalates things without knowing he's doing it. And now he's saying "she's asleep, nothing we can do." Like H***!, when the doctor calls, throw her butt into the car - she doesn't have to be awake to be admitted! Which he'll eventually do when I make a stink (so it'll be my fault and he'll be the good guy).
And to top it off the guardianship papers are MIA - all of them, so I'm feeling suspicious. It's just the sort of thing that CeCe would destroy if she could. She's deep into the fantasy that she doesn't belong with us and she'd get to go back to her bparents if only we were out of her life. psychiatric hospital says we have to have them unless she's admitted as a "10-13" (same as Baker Act?) even though we provided them last year (ridiculous) - hopefully the psychiatrist will do that.
Thankfully the psychiatrist does get it and we've got a decent community mental health support team. It's just a long road to racking up the admissions to get her into Residential Treatment Center (RTC). She tends to act out at night, and we have to weigh the benefits of an exhausting hours long admission process IF there's a bed against the lost sleep and lost work the next day.
Thanks for letting me ramble and rant ...
PJ