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<blockquote data-quote="UpandDown" data-source="post: 685690" data-attributes="member: 19025"><p>Kt, I am sorry all of you are going through this. I can empathize with how you are feeling. My 16 year old son completely flipped out on me a few months ago. All to do with consequences given for me finding out he snuck car out in the middle of the night to smoke weed. He threatened to kill himself and ran off in the woods with a knife. Thankfully he came to his senses and came back and dropped the knife,saying he didn't really want to die but I was pushing him to the edge. This all while I was on the phone with 911. He was taken to the hospital and after 10 hours in the ER he was released to us for a 10 day outpatient program in local pysch hospital. Then he had homebound schooling for 6 weeks and just started back to school with early dismissal. I felt gutted and sad and so so depressed. As a note of encouragement, he has drastically improved since the partial hospitalization. I think he scared himself very badly at how far he went. And I think he learned some more ways to work through his anxiety and depression. And having to tell his school that he was hospitalized for his anxiety really got them to finally offer real help and understanding. He has a long way to go as he is still smoking. I pray that this hospitalization for your son helps him and also opens up future healing and help. Be kind to yourself and do whatever you need to do to get through this time. If not going to see him is how you get through then that is ok!!! I made a list of small things that made me feel good and tried to do them. Small, simple things like reading a magazine, deactivating my fb account(lol),taking walks,calling an old friend and not talking about son. I learned that I am really strong and could get through things that I wouldn't wish on anyone. One last piece of advice that i learned here is not "awfulize" and not to write the ending to my son's story.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpandDown, post: 685690, member: 19025"] Kt, I am sorry all of you are going through this. I can empathize with how you are feeling. My 16 year old son completely flipped out on me a few months ago. All to do with consequences given for me finding out he snuck car out in the middle of the night to smoke weed. He threatened to kill himself and ran off in the woods with a knife. Thankfully he came to his senses and came back and dropped the knife,saying he didn't really want to die but I was pushing him to the edge. This all while I was on the phone with 911. He was taken to the hospital and after 10 hours in the ER he was released to us for a 10 day outpatient program in local pysch hospital. Then he had homebound schooling for 6 weeks and just started back to school with early dismissal. I felt gutted and sad and so so depressed. As a note of encouragement, he has drastically improved since the partial hospitalization. I think he scared himself very badly at how far he went. And I think he learned some more ways to work through his anxiety and depression. And having to tell his school that he was hospitalized for his anxiety really got them to finally offer real help and understanding. He has a long way to go as he is still smoking. I pray that this hospitalization for your son helps him and also opens up future healing and help. Be kind to yourself and do whatever you need to do to get through this time. If not going to see him is how you get through then that is ok!!! I made a list of small things that made me feel good and tried to do them. Small, simple things like reading a magazine, deactivating my fb account(lol),taking walks,calling an old friend and not talking about son. I learned that I am really strong and could get through things that I wouldn't wish on anyone. One last piece of advice that i learned here is not "awfulize" and not to write the ending to my son's story. [/QUOTE]
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