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Confused ... is this a sign of danger or attention-seeking?
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<blockquote data-quote="helpangel" data-source="post: 537244" data-attributes="member: 7170"><p>I know what you mean about the overly happy thing, a few years back I was reporting it to psychiatrist and she was insisting Angel was doing well; apparently psychiatrist & I have different idea of well she had gone 48 hours on a couple hours sleep, was singing and vacuming cobwebs out of the corners of the house. Little sleep? singing? cleaning? I was scared to death didn't know who this alien who had taken over my daughter was???</p><p></p><p>After that "too happy" stage she went into the sleep all day, not bathing, eating everything that doesn't eat her first stage. That went for a couple days before the close call that landed her in the psychiatric hospital. Cleaning her room while she was inpatient couldn't help but snooping because I kept finding the words "help me" written all over everything, open a journal and every page full of those 2 words over and over.</p><p></p><p>I snoop under pretense of cleaning, I read text messages, face book posts & check internet history. I act like I'm ignoring kids that actually I'm not taking my eyes off them. All kids different but when mine are in the biggest danger they don't ask for help; I have to just pick up on the clues and get them the help. Knowing this is one area I can't count on a chance for a "do over" we usually swing thru the crisis center even when I suspect it's just an attention seeking thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helpangel, post: 537244, member: 7170"] I know what you mean about the overly happy thing, a few years back I was reporting it to psychiatrist and she was insisting Angel was doing well; apparently psychiatrist & I have different idea of well she had gone 48 hours on a couple hours sleep, was singing and vacuming cobwebs out of the corners of the house. Little sleep? singing? cleaning? I was scared to death didn't know who this alien who had taken over my daughter was??? After that "too happy" stage she went into the sleep all day, not bathing, eating everything that doesn't eat her first stage. That went for a couple days before the close call that landed her in the psychiatric hospital. Cleaning her room while she was inpatient couldn't help but snooping because I kept finding the words "help me" written all over everything, open a journal and every page full of those 2 words over and over. I snoop under pretense of cleaning, I read text messages, face book posts & check internet history. I act like I'm ignoring kids that actually I'm not taking my eyes off them. All kids different but when mine are in the biggest danger they don't ask for help; I have to just pick up on the clues and get them the help. Knowing this is one area I can't count on a chance for a "do over" we usually swing thru the crisis center even when I suspect it's just an attention seeking thing. [/QUOTE]
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