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<blockquote data-quote="TallRobert13" data-source="post: 723180" data-attributes="member: 22419"><p>Yes, he's seeing a psychiatrist and therapist now.. they're currently just getting started with him, and I feel I have to follow up each session myself because,a s you can iamgine, his relationship with the truth is somewhat...tenuous to say the least.</p><p></p><p> Yeah, it's slow going.. one visit per doctor per week so far, and a lot of it seems to be restating things just to get everyone up to speed. Thankfully his mother sent a list of incidents and issues so I can hand that over to them to refer to so I'm only repeating the specifics of the incident that happened here. He's currently taking Abilify and Guanfacine for his ADHD... so far no anti-psychotics, but we're early into the whole thing even if months have already passed. My biggest concern is the "warm heart" a lot of pyshcs seem to inherently have, and while I understand it motivates their desire to help people with mental illnesses, at times I also feel it tends to make them blind to severity and the like by way of not wanting to be "judgmental"... He's been treated with kid gloves before, been treated sternly before, and on his moms' end, she was literally told to save her money because he's pretty adept at telling people what he thinks they want to hear... not that this is terribly difficult but I'm sort of having to be "cleanup hitter" in making sure they're not being taken in by the in-the-moment appearance of "doing well".</p><p></p><p> At this point it's highly unlikely he's taking anything unless he's getting pills at school. So far his behaviour has leveled some, he's acting more or less "normal", and we've limited opportunities for shenanigans. He's not always in my presence, but only when at school or sitting in the cafeteria at my office while I work. The rest of the time he's under observation, but I'm aware even small opportunities are opportunities. We're doing what we can, pressing my insurance company to look into in-patient treatments and schools.... mostly so he has the level of supervision we can't realistically provide ourselves, but also to remove the stress sources for both him and my wife. </p><p></p><p> We'll have to see... he's far more internet sacvvy than I am, and even an email address opens the opportunity to access IP addresses and the like.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm guessing she didn't think to go outside the family, indeed the level of problems she was dealing with weren't really given to me until after we discovered the theft and online identity theft etc. Then we got the whole story (which I'm actually quite angry about, I feel I was duped into taking on a situation without all the facts). She's very non-confrontational and I'm betting that maternal aspect to her relationship with him led her to soft-peddle both consequences and informing those that needed to know (ie me and my wife). To be fair, my son seems to have been pretty adept at putting a wedge between us, but since "the incident" we're in daily contact and she's up-to-speed on things on our end, and fully supports the road we're going down with him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TallRobert13, post: 723180, member: 22419"] Yes, he's seeing a psychiatrist and therapist now.. they're currently just getting started with him, and I feel I have to follow up each session myself because,a s you can iamgine, his relationship with the truth is somewhat...tenuous to say the least. Yeah, it's slow going.. one visit per doctor per week so far, and a lot of it seems to be restating things just to get everyone up to speed. Thankfully his mother sent a list of incidents and issues so I can hand that over to them to refer to so I'm only repeating the specifics of the incident that happened here. He's currently taking Abilify and Guanfacine for his ADHD... so far no anti-psychotics, but we're early into the whole thing even if months have already passed. My biggest concern is the "warm heart" a lot of pyshcs seem to inherently have, and while I understand it motivates their desire to help people with mental illnesses, at times I also feel it tends to make them blind to severity and the like by way of not wanting to be "judgmental"... He's been treated with kid gloves before, been treated sternly before, and on his moms' end, she was literally told to save her money because he's pretty adept at telling people what he thinks they want to hear... not that this is terribly difficult but I'm sort of having to be "cleanup hitter" in making sure they're not being taken in by the in-the-moment appearance of "doing well". At this point it's highly unlikely he's taking anything unless he's getting pills at school. So far his behaviour has leveled some, he's acting more or less "normal", and we've limited opportunities for shenanigans. He's not always in my presence, but only when at school or sitting in the cafeteria at my office while I work. The rest of the time he's under observation, but I'm aware even small opportunities are opportunities. We're doing what we can, pressing my insurance company to look into in-patient treatments and schools.... mostly so he has the level of supervision we can't realistically provide ourselves, but also to remove the stress sources for both him and my wife. We'll have to see... he's far more internet sacvvy than I am, and even an email address opens the opportunity to access IP addresses and the like. I'm guessing she didn't think to go outside the family, indeed the level of problems she was dealing with weren't really given to me until after we discovered the theft and online identity theft etc. Then we got the whole story (which I'm actually quite angry about, I feel I was duped into taking on a situation without all the facts). She's very non-confrontational and I'm betting that maternal aspect to her relationship with him led her to soft-peddle both consequences and informing those that needed to know (ie me and my wife). To be fair, my son seems to have been pretty adept at putting a wedge between us, but since "the incident" we're in daily contact and she's up-to-speed on things on our end, and fully supports the road we're going down with him. [/QUOTE]
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