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maya67
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Hi everyone, I am writing tonight, not really knowing where to start or what to say...so bear with me please...I have a daughter who is 17. Six months ago, she was a beautiful, sweet, loving girl. That isn't who she is any more. Over the last six months she started using mj at the least, and possibly abusing cough medicine, like Robitussin. Her grades dropped, she started to skip school (she is a senior), she started sneaking out at night (out a 2nd floor window onto the roof and down a street lamp), hanging out in the seriously most dangerous neighborhoods in our urban area. She was with drug dealers and users, gang members, all that. I have watched my daughter turn into someone I don't even know. When caught under the influence, she has not acted like someone who has just been smoking weed because she is so violent and aggressive, and she is a very petite person, but she has hurt everyone in our family. Last week was the final straw. She snuck out of the house 3 nights in a row. When confronted with loss of privileges, she got very violent. Police were called and she was involuntairly committed for being dangerous to others. They let her go the next day, and she got high that night. The next night she completely tricked me by pretending she was going to bed, and I woke up at 6am to find her window open and she was gone. I could not find her for 9 hours. She has scared me so much. I finally had enough. I took her to the ER. That was a big struggle. She tried to take the steering wheel out of my hands and jump from a moving car. I called for security, and they got her inside where she was admitted. After 4 days, they told me she needed longer term substance abuse and possibly psychiatric (bipolar maybe) treatment. So, I had to hire a pair of people to basically handle her and take her 300 miles to a treatment center. She has been there 5 days. First she was angry and defiant, saying the problem is that I am just too overprotective and that I need to get a life. The last couple of days she is crying and apologizing. I don't know that I did the right thing. I just know that I felt like it was this or plan a funeral. Since being admitted, you cannot imagine the kind of text messages coming in to her phone. Pornographic images of boys/men. I just have to wonder what in the world was going on that I maybe have no idea about. I am sick with stress and worry. I wonder if any of you have been through this. Did I do the right thing? What should I expect next from her? They say she either has a substance abuse problem or is bipolar or both. Have any of you experience with cough medicine/Robitussin abuse? What does that look like? What are the chances she will get better after 30 - 45 days in this place? It is an adolescent substance abuse/psychiatric treatment center that came highly recommended.
Did I say I am beyond exhausted and have the worst insomnia of my life? I keep waking up thinking she has escaped out the window again and that we will find her dead. This is my definition of a nightmare.
maya
Did I say I am beyond exhausted and have the worst insomnia of my life? I keep waking up thinking she has escaped out the window again and that we will find her dead. This is my definition of a nightmare.
maya