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hi - New Here, son just put in Residential Treatment Center (RTC), will things ever get better?
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<blockquote data-quote="PiscesMom" data-source="post: 675943" data-attributes="member: 19889"><p>wow, Coping! And here I thought for awhile that one stay at an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) would maybe fix everything. I am glad to hear she is doing somewhat better. Was she underage during all these stays? Did you have to pay out of pocket? </p><p>JMom, that sounds so hard! I am curious, what do you mean by consequences? Is he supposed to be taking medications? And how much responsibility for choices can you give someone who is mentally ill? Ugh, sounds horrible. Somehow I will have to figure this out as well. I hope I am not sounding at all reproachful, I am just saying it sounds horrible, and I worry so much about my son's future. And we don't have control. We can't control, right? </p><p>A long time ago I read an autobiography of a woman who spent most of her life in a mental institution and finally she made a choice - I am going to get better. And she found her way out. She practiced walking down the halls, even tho' the walls were bending in crazy ways to her. But it was all from a choice she made deep down. </p><p></p><p>question - how much can you share with others? Without violating the child's privacy? Like my son - they are thinking of a diagnosis of Psychotic Disorder not otherwise specified. I have been in a fog since that conversation. And he's had conduct disorder since he was 13 and a half. Do I get to share that with people if I go to a NAMI meeting?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PiscesMom, post: 675943, member: 19889"] wow, Coping! And here I thought for awhile that one stay at an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) would maybe fix everything. I am glad to hear she is doing somewhat better. Was she underage during all these stays? Did you have to pay out of pocket? JMom, that sounds so hard! I am curious, what do you mean by consequences? Is he supposed to be taking medications? And how much responsibility for choices can you give someone who is mentally ill? Ugh, sounds horrible. Somehow I will have to figure this out as well. I hope I am not sounding at all reproachful, I am just saying it sounds horrible, and I worry so much about my son's future. And we don't have control. We can't control, right? A long time ago I read an autobiography of a woman who spent most of her life in a mental institution and finally she made a choice - I am going to get better. And she found her way out. She practiced walking down the halls, even tho' the walls were bending in crazy ways to her. But it was all from a choice she made deep down. question - how much can you share with others? Without violating the child's privacy? Like my son - they are thinking of a diagnosis of Psychotic Disorder not otherwise specified. I have been in a fog since that conversation. And he's had conduct disorder since he was 13 and a half. Do I get to share that with people if I go to a NAMI meeting? [/QUOTE]
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