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Highly gifted teen son - inpatient, outpatient, dropped out of school
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<blockquote data-quote="Sam3" data-source="post: 719143" data-attributes="member: 19290"><p>It feels like high IQ plus anxiety is a perfect storm.</p><p></p><p>Their precociousness passes for maturity.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't accord too much weight to what a 16 year old thinks he doesn't need. Baby geniuses have explanations for everything but actions speak for themselves. Is he well? I think we still need to hide the vegetables in the spaghetti sauce for those guys, as put together as they sound.</p><p></p><p>I have a friend with a kid with crippling social anxiety who was doing a lot of the same things (school refusal, being reclusive, etc). Also a smart kid. He had some gains from therapy but couldn't hang on to them as long as he had a place to hide. This family had seen the trajectory long enough and had the means to send him to a residential program (Waypoint,I think) which is targeted to teen boys with depression and anxiety. They did a lot of Exposure Response Therapy which basically forces them to feel the anxiety of certain situations and live through it, gradually diminishing the anxiety over time. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) therapists and others do it too.</p><p></p><p>He didn't sign himself out when he turned 18. He took a gap year, finished the program, got a job working with the public and will start college this fall.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sam3, post: 719143, member: 19290"] It feels like high IQ plus anxiety is a perfect storm. Their precociousness passes for maturity. I wouldn't accord too much weight to what a 16 year old thinks he doesn't need. Baby geniuses have explanations for everything but actions speak for themselves. Is he well? I think we still need to hide the vegetables in the spaghetti sauce for those guys, as put together as they sound. I have a friend with a kid with crippling social anxiety who was doing a lot of the same things (school refusal, being reclusive, etc). Also a smart kid. He had some gains from therapy but couldn't hang on to them as long as he had a place to hide. This family had seen the trajectory long enough and had the means to send him to a residential program (Waypoint,I think) which is targeted to teen boys with depression and anxiety. They did a lot of Exposure Response Therapy which basically forces them to feel the anxiety of certain situations and live through it, gradually diminishing the anxiety over time. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) therapists and others do it too. He didn't sign himself out when he turned 18. He took a gap year, finished the program, got a job working with the public and will start college this fall. [/QUOTE]
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