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<blockquote data-quote="Baggy Bags" data-source="post: 745554" data-attributes="member: 22819"><p>Got a call from the psychologist that is seeing my son in this center. She was wondering if we could talk about some of my "worries" and help me "trust" the staff more. So, of course, staff is already talking about the overbearing, over-controlling mother who demands to be notified before they give him any medications. I told her that I am not alone, that I am with hundreds of other mothers, experts and researchers all over the world. She was implying that understanding medication was beyond me and I should leave it to the professionals. I wanted to jump through the phone. I told her that in Latin America doctors want everyone to trust them blindly, ask no questions, don't get in the way... but that that wasn't going to work for me and that they were not going to mess with my kids brain in any way without my authorization.</p><p></p><p>She told me that L is under the impression that he can't come home. I told her to please clarify that with him. She told me to call him today, so I did.</p><p></p><p>He got on the phone and started (to my suprise) saying that he knows I love him and that he loves me. He confessed to all the drugs he used. He hadn't mentioned cocaine before. My 14yo son was snorting cocaine. I knew about LSD, DMT, MDMA, but he told me that it was more times than he had said previously. Then he went on to say that as much as he knows he messed up, that he cannot ever live with me again because it's unhealthy for both of us. It sounded like an adult was putting this in his head. I wrote to the psychologist to tell her about it. We've only spoken once, and she has seen my son once. She responded: remember that you know your son and that he might say things like that to hurt you. I was impressed. I'm still unconvinced that someone didn't put that in his head, but maybe not. Maybe he said all of that, even the I love you part, to set me up and then stab me with the "but I can't live with you again". Anyway, I'm glad she sees the possibility of that, but I told her all the same to remind the staff that he has nowhere else to go, so it is essential that they work with him on taking the steps needed to fix his relationship with us.</p><p></p><p>I'm worried that they are orchestrating this so that the outcome is L staying with them until he's 18, and getting lots of money from us. But maybe I'm just being paranoid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Baggy Bags, post: 745554, member: 22819"] Got a call from the psychologist that is seeing my son in this center. She was wondering if we could talk about some of my "worries" and help me "trust" the staff more. So, of course, staff is already talking about the overbearing, over-controlling mother who demands to be notified before they give him any medications. I told her that I am not alone, that I am with hundreds of other mothers, experts and researchers all over the world. She was implying that understanding medication was beyond me and I should leave it to the professionals. I wanted to jump through the phone. I told her that in Latin America doctors want everyone to trust them blindly, ask no questions, don't get in the way... but that that wasn't going to work for me and that they were not going to mess with my kids brain in any way without my authorization. She told me that L is under the impression that he can't come home. I told her to please clarify that with him. She told me to call him today, so I did. He got on the phone and started (to my suprise) saying that he knows I love him and that he loves me. He confessed to all the drugs he used. He hadn't mentioned cocaine before. My 14yo son was snorting cocaine. I knew about LSD, DMT, MDMA, but he told me that it was more times than he had said previously. Then he went on to say that as much as he knows he messed up, that he cannot ever live with me again because it's unhealthy for both of us. It sounded like an adult was putting this in his head. I wrote to the psychologist to tell her about it. We've only spoken once, and she has seen my son once. She responded: remember that you know your son and that he might say things like that to hurt you. I was impressed. I'm still unconvinced that someone didn't put that in his head, but maybe not. Maybe he said all of that, even the I love you part, to set me up and then stab me with the "but I can't live with you again". Anyway, I'm glad she sees the possibility of that, but I told her all the same to remind the staff that he has nowhere else to go, so it is essential that they work with him on taking the steps needed to fix his relationship with us. I'm worried that they are orchestrating this so that the outcome is L staying with them until he's 18, and getting lots of money from us. But maybe I'm just being paranoid. [/QUOTE]
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