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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 203869" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p>Well, it has been a crazy, no good, very bad day.............for both Matt and myself, but mostly Matt.</p><p></p><p>He refused his Lithium last night, and than tried to wave around a handmade bow and arrow at the staff as he demanded to have for me to be called. They called, and of course, I talked him down, which always seems to be the case when we have distance. However, OMG, he is seriously, seriously suicidal. The pain in his voice reached through the phone and seized me around the neck, I felt so intensely horrible for him. </p><p></p><p>He is cycling so fast he does not even know which way to go. One minute he is suicidal, the next minute homicdal. It is everything within my being to not go there just to give him a hug. I do not want to rescue him. I do not want him to come home. I just want to hug him, and somehow, someway help him so that he does not feel so manic aka aggressive, and then depressed all within 45 minutes. OMG I would be exhausted if that happened to me every day.</p><p></p><p>Then the psychiatric hospital in UT started calling me to get my insurance benefits ~ and I flipped my lid. No one at this program has even told me they were thinking of driving him 3 hours to an inpatient unit. Even is that is the plan, good luck with getting him there since he is 18.</p><p></p><p>Then I talked to everyone involved and they all assured me that no one had even called the hospital. Whatever. It is all I have in my being not to fly up there right now, and take control of the situation. I do not want to bring Matt home, or rescue him ~ I just want this situation to be handled in the a way that makes Matt better and healthy again. Is that too much to ask?</p><p></p><p>What a horrible predicament to be in as a parent. And so many of us are there. My heart just feels like it is breaking for every parent here, as well as for me........I swear if I had bottled up my tears all these years for Matt it would sink a ship, let alone a person.</p><p></p><p>PS</p><p>No, the medications that were d/c at the hospital were not restarted because it takes weeks to titrate up on them. He was doing OK off of them, until now, 5 weeks later, with all of this stress. Cr@p, I don't know what to do about the medications, and there is not a p-doctor at this wilderness program.</p><p></p><p>This program he is in is only an intermediate program to transition him to an adult living situation. Once we can get him stabilized, than he can transition. Then again, at this rate........I don't know what we are going to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 203869, member: 3301"] Well, it has been a crazy, no good, very bad day.............for both Matt and myself, but mostly Matt. He refused his Lithium last night, and than tried to wave around a handmade bow and arrow at the staff as he demanded to have for me to be called. They called, and of course, I talked him down, which always seems to be the case when we have distance. However, OMG, he is seriously, seriously suicidal. The pain in his voice reached through the phone and seized me around the neck, I felt so intensely horrible for him. He is cycling so fast he does not even know which way to go. One minute he is suicidal, the next minute homicdal. It is everything within my being to not go there just to give him a hug. I do not want to rescue him. I do not want him to come home. I just want to hug him, and somehow, someway help him so that he does not feel so manic aka aggressive, and then depressed all within 45 minutes. OMG I would be exhausted if that happened to me every day. Then the psychiatric hospital in UT started calling me to get my insurance benefits ~ and I flipped my lid. No one at this program has even told me they were thinking of driving him 3 hours to an inpatient unit. Even is that is the plan, good luck with getting him there since he is 18. Then I talked to everyone involved and they all assured me that no one had even called the hospital. Whatever. It is all I have in my being not to fly up there right now, and take control of the situation. I do not want to bring Matt home, or rescue him ~ I just want this situation to be handled in the a way that makes Matt better and healthy again. Is that too much to ask? What a horrible predicament to be in as a parent. And so many of us are there. My heart just feels like it is breaking for every parent here, as well as for me........I swear if I had bottled up my tears all these years for Matt it would sink a ship, let alone a person. PS No, the medications that were d/c at the hospital were not restarted because it takes weeks to titrate up on them. He was doing OK off of them, until now, 5 weeks later, with all of this stress. Cr@p, I don't know what to do about the medications, and there is not a p-doctor at this wilderness program. This program he is in is only an intermediate program to transition him to an adult living situation. Once we can get him stabilized, than he can transition. Then again, at this rate........I don't know what we are going to do. [/QUOTE]
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