I am not sure I worded my question quite right......
Um.....well, no, of course I was not there....and no, I do not know how he was behaving...but--- when you first posted I wondered if......the idea to ask for psychiatric hospital came to difficult children mind as a way to not get in trouble with police.....like maybe he thought of it after the police came? As in...geee, the police might take me to juvie..but, if I ask to go to psychiatric hospital, then I won't end up in juvie.
BUT....with all the rest going on, too......I am not sure I woulda called police, I think I mighta called ambulance to transport to phsop instead of police. I did not know all the rest of the stuff when I wondered if it was an alternative.
BUT your last paragraph about what difficult child thought psychiatric hospital would be like also reinforces my idea that he did not pick phsop for the purpose of getting help- but as the easiest way out of the mess he found himself in at the moment.
