but I need to get it off my chest anyway...
This doctor is NUTS!!!!
husband was fed-up with the baloney about buying difficult child a horse--so he sent the doctor an email and said that HE needed to talk with the doctor personally about what's been happening and NOT happening with difficult child.
So at today's appointment, husband did a lot of talking about how he was sick and tired of difficult child laying around doing nothing, flunking out of school, and giving him attitude and angry outbursts every time he asked her to do something. He wants some kind of practical solution because we cannot go on living this way.
Now the doctor has been having us use a "behavior chart" for the past several months...and her answer all along has been to 'give it time' and 'eventually' it will work.
Today--doctor still will not admit that the behavior chart is not working....and instead offers to come up with a "compromise" for the family.
So what's the big solution?
doctor said that difficult child has been doing so well and making such progress that the "behavior chart" is no longer necessary. Yay!!!
Um....what???
Yes, doctor explained that we've all made wonderful progress. In fact--she doesn't even think that difficult child has a mental illness (never mind that just a few weeks ago this same doctor diagnosed her with alphabet soup). But today...everything is just fine.
So...basically we've been told that today is a "Fresh Start" {{aren't you so sick of hearing about difficult children getting a fresh start???}} and we should just go on with our lives and everything will be different now. Everything is just great.
I feel like I've wasted six months of my life....
Clearly, we need a new doctor--
Which is a whole other can of worms.
This stinks!
(o wait--I forgot--"Fresh Start"...everything's hunky-dory.)
This doctor is NUTS!!!!
husband was fed-up with the baloney about buying difficult child a horse--so he sent the doctor an email and said that HE needed to talk with the doctor personally about what's been happening and NOT happening with difficult child.
So at today's appointment, husband did a lot of talking about how he was sick and tired of difficult child laying around doing nothing, flunking out of school, and giving him attitude and angry outbursts every time he asked her to do something. He wants some kind of practical solution because we cannot go on living this way.
Now the doctor has been having us use a "behavior chart" for the past several months...and her answer all along has been to 'give it time' and 'eventually' it will work.
Today--doctor still will not admit that the behavior chart is not working....and instead offers to come up with a "compromise" for the family.
So what's the big solution?
doctor said that difficult child has been doing so well and making such progress that the "behavior chart" is no longer necessary. Yay!!!
Um....what???
Yes, doctor explained that we've all made wonderful progress. In fact--she doesn't even think that difficult child has a mental illness (never mind that just a few weeks ago this same doctor diagnosed her with alphabet soup). But today...everything is just fine.
So...basically we've been told that today is a "Fresh Start" {{aren't you so sick of hearing about difficult children getting a fresh start???}} and we should just go on with our lives and everything will be different now. Everything is just great.
I feel like I've wasted six months of my life....
Clearly, we need a new doctor--
Which is a whole other can of worms.
This stinks!
(o wait--I forgot--"Fresh Start"...everything's hunky-dory.)