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<blockquote data-quote="Baggy Bags" data-source="post: 737766" data-attributes="member: 22819"><p>(((Hugs))) It's so hard.</p><p></p><p>Mine was this last Feb, a month after my son's suicide attempt which was almost successful. He's 15.</p><p></p><p>At first the psychiatrist said to just continue life as normal and "give him some space". At that point, the psychiatrist was believing my son's crazy stories (we are cult-like, drug-using, abusive parents who keep him locked in with the goats, tie him up, sedate him... at one point he had family services people thinking I was a stripper, I kid you not). Anyway, a month later, doctor realizes his mistake - to some degree anyway - medicates my son and tells me exactly this right after a therapy session: "If you don't hospitalize him right now, best case scenario he grows up to be a psychopath, worse case scenario he kills himself tomorrow." Wow, thanks doctor, lovely load to put onto an already traumatized mother who was recently watching her son die on a hospital bed - seizures, eye-balls popping out, the works...</p><p></p><p>I was horrified at having to medicate my child, hospitalization was my idea of hell. We planned to not tell him, send his bag ahead of him, and just say that we were going to a family therapy session. I cried the whole night before.</p><p></p><p>When we got there, it just looked like a brick house from the outside. THERE WAS A LADY SCREAMING. I thought I was going to die. My son seemed un-phased. I was sure he'd know right away, but he didn't seem to catch on and even thought it sounded like a howling cat, so I went with that. Okay, yes, that must be a howling cat. ?? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what? o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" /> When we went in, I knew the male nurses were ready to pounce if he tried to run, but he stayed calm. I couldn't understand how he didn't realize what was happening. There was a guy rolling around in the grass. Still, no reaction from my son. It was all very surreal.</p><p></p><p>We went into a waiting room, just the three of us, to wait for the doctor. He got there shortly after and asked to see my son alone. My son walked out calmly, and then it was our turn. doctor told us that he had talked to son and he was totally willing to stay! I later learned that doctor had sold it like "just stay here with us for a while, dude, take a break from your parents...".</p><p></p><p>He was only there for a week. He was the only teenager. There were some very ill people there, but the guy who'd been rolling around in the grass was normal-ish, so they hung out. But he was continually calling us to ask us to send money so that he could order out. Um. No. So he was very angry on the phone.</p><p></p><p>It's a very different story, but still hard for us moms no matter how it happens. One more scene in this never-ending nightmare. Hugs all around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Baggy Bags, post: 737766, member: 22819"] (((Hugs))) It's so hard. Mine was this last Feb, a month after my son's suicide attempt which was almost successful. He's 15. At first the psychiatrist said to just continue life as normal and "give him some space". At that point, the psychiatrist was believing my son's crazy stories (we are cult-like, drug-using, abusive parents who keep him locked in with the goats, tie him up, sedate him... at one point he had family services people thinking I was a stripper, I kid you not). Anyway, a month later, doctor realizes his mistake - to some degree anyway - medicates my son and tells me exactly this right after a therapy session: "If you don't hospitalize him right now, best case scenario he grows up to be a psychopath, worse case scenario he kills himself tomorrow." Wow, thanks doctor, lovely load to put onto an already traumatized mother who was recently watching her son die on a hospital bed - seizures, eye-balls popping out, the works... I was horrified at having to medicate my child, hospitalization was my idea of hell. We planned to not tell him, send his bag ahead of him, and just say that we were going to a family therapy session. I cried the whole night before. When we got there, it just looked like a brick house from the outside. THERE WAS A LADY SCREAMING. I thought I was going to die. My son seemed un-phased. I was sure he'd know right away, but he didn't seem to catch on and even thought it sounded like a howling cat, so I went with that. Okay, yes, that must be a howling cat. ?? o_O When we went in, I knew the male nurses were ready to pounce if he tried to run, but he stayed calm. I couldn't understand how he didn't realize what was happening. There was a guy rolling around in the grass. Still, no reaction from my son. It was all very surreal. We went into a waiting room, just the three of us, to wait for the doctor. He got there shortly after and asked to see my son alone. My son walked out calmly, and then it was our turn. doctor told us that he had talked to son and he was totally willing to stay! I later learned that doctor had sold it like "just stay here with us for a while, dude, take a break from your parents...". He was only there for a week. He was the only teenager. There were some very ill people there, but the guy who'd been rolling around in the grass was normal-ish, so they hung out. But he was continually calling us to ask us to send money so that he could order out. Um. No. So he was very angry on the phone. It's a very different story, but still hard for us moms no matter how it happens. One more scene in this never-ending nightmare. Hugs all around. [/QUOTE]
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