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Teachers had been saying he was headed for dentention center (he'd never broken a law at that point) and other inappropriate things to him in front of his peers. Same time period, he comes to understand that the reason his father wasn't in his life and that they had never met or spoken, was because his father had wanted it that way (son now has major rejection issues) and he clearrly internalized that all this was just because "he was bad". On top of that, a family friend (grandmother's best friend) was starting treatment for breast cancer and they found spots on my mammogram. Everyone had been assuring difficult child that this is treatable and typically cured, but family friend died shortly after 1st chemo treatment. It took a couple of months before we found out that I did not have cancer.  All of this happenened between Sept. and Dec., 2005. At first, I saw signs of sadness and big issues with "I'm just bad and can't help it". Then, he started being non-compliant, angry with me, and stealing things. I had started family therapy for us, but he became more erratic and a clear danger to himself and giving away toys, etc., so I got him in an acute psychiatric hospital where they said major depression, rule out bipolar, and put him on prozac.


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