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Your experiences with/opinions on Residential Treatment Center (RTC), please.
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<blockquote data-quote="Vanilla" data-source="post: 385476" data-attributes="member: 2026"><p>I'm glad you found this site. I think the Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s vary in quality across the country. I know some must be good and help kids, but sometimes kids go there and still have the same problems when they get out. My difficult child son was angry, abusive, explosive. Living with him was a nightmare throughout the teen years. His "normal" twin got beat up, can't tell you how many times I would lie in bed just waiting for their arguments to erupt into physical fights. I finally had to call the police when he (difficult child) held a knife to me and his brother. He had 3 days in detention, probation, mandated psychiatric treatment. Had some peace when the twin moved into the college dorm. The difficult child graduated from high school and lived at home to complete 1 and 1/2 yrs. college. Then he moved to a state far away and works full time and has enrolled in college there. Our phone conversations are not warm and loving, but are usually cordial. He says he is "never" homesick. We are both better off right now many miles apart. Was I a lousy parent? Maybe. I'm a mental health professional but that really was not a huge help when it' s your own kid. I truly know where you are at. There is a book called "We Have to Talk about Kevin" I read it several times because I thought the story told would be my son's. Please hang on, maybe you will be surprised in a good way by how he matures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vanilla, post: 385476, member: 2026"] I'm glad you found this site. I think the Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s vary in quality across the country. I know some must be good and help kids, but sometimes kids go there and still have the same problems when they get out. My difficult child son was angry, abusive, explosive. Living with him was a nightmare throughout the teen years. His "normal" twin got beat up, can't tell you how many times I would lie in bed just waiting for their arguments to erupt into physical fights. I finally had to call the police when he (difficult child) held a knife to me and his brother. He had 3 days in detention, probation, mandated psychiatric treatment. Had some peace when the twin moved into the college dorm. The difficult child graduated from high school and lived at home to complete 1 and 1/2 yrs. college. Then he moved to a state far away and works full time and has enrolled in college there. Our phone conversations are not warm and loving, but are usually cordial. He says he is "never" homesick. We are both better off right now many miles apart. Was I a lousy parent? Maybe. I'm a mental health professional but that really was not a huge help when it' s your own kid. I truly know where you are at. There is a book called "We Have to Talk about Kevin" I read it several times because I thought the story told would be my son's. Please hang on, maybe you will be surprised in a good way by how he matures. [/QUOTE]
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