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<blockquote data-quote="treasalin" data-source="post: 314937" data-attributes="member: 8194"><p>Thanks so much! I had a major computer crash and am just now back. I can't begin to express how much your words and understanding mean to me. </p><p> </p><p>About the Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), I think it's possible but she's so good at "playing the game" that even trained therapists pronounced her normal. The only one that could see anything had experience with older adopted kids. Bipolar is definitely a possibility but we could never get a diagnosis as she would walk in a room with a counselor/therapist/doctor and sit staring away from them because we made her go and she wasn't going to participate. Her birthdad is bipolar and at least two of her biosiblings that were not removed by social services are also bipolar. </p><p> </p><p>She will only contact us by text message on her cell phone now and will not give us an address for forwarding mail.. She is saying she needs an insurance card ASAP because her front teeth that have a cavity betwen them are going bad and she is freaking out but she won't come here to pick it up. (I have made appts for the dentist several times and she wouldn't go because the needles to numb her are not fun!) OUr family dentist told us last time not to bring her back unless it is her idea because it's disruptive to the other patients. She has had a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) for weeks now that almost goes away and then returns and doesn't respond to any of the antibiotics so far. I have told her that knowing that and knowing she is sexually active, she needs to make an appointment with an ob/gyn for a full checkup but she refuses that because it is "too embarrassing". I actually got her to an appointment once but she wouldn't allow them to examine her. </p><p> </p><p>The concern I have now is for her younger sister. We have seen older sister a few times since she left and each time she has encouraged her younger sister to rebel and tells her that if she isn't perfect, we'll kick her out of the family too. We didn't kick the older one out of the family.....in fact, it was quite the opposite. My husband all but begged her stay and work through the problems she was upset about and she refused. I can't let her poison her younger sister.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="treasalin, post: 314937, member: 8194"] Thanks so much! I had a major computer crash and am just now back. I can't begin to express how much your words and understanding mean to me. About the Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), I think it's possible but she's so good at "playing the game" that even trained therapists pronounced her normal. The only one that could see anything had experience with older adopted kids. Bipolar is definitely a possibility but we could never get a diagnosis as she would walk in a room with a counselor/therapist/doctor and sit staring away from them because we made her go and she wasn't going to participate. Her birthdad is bipolar and at least two of her biosiblings that were not removed by social services are also bipolar. She will only contact us by text message on her cell phone now and will not give us an address for forwarding mail.. She is saying she needs an insurance card ASAP because her front teeth that have a cavity betwen them are going bad and she is freaking out but she won't come here to pick it up. (I have made appts for the dentist several times and she wouldn't go because the needles to numb her are not fun!) OUr family dentist told us last time not to bring her back unless it is her idea because it's disruptive to the other patients. She has had a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) for weeks now that almost goes away and then returns and doesn't respond to any of the antibiotics so far. I have told her that knowing that and knowing she is sexually active, she needs to make an appointment with an ob/gyn for a full checkup but she refuses that because it is "too embarrassing". I actually got her to an appointment once but she wouldn't allow them to examine her. The concern I have now is for her younger sister. We have seen older sister a few times since she left and each time she has encouraged her younger sister to rebel and tells her that if she isn't perfect, we'll kick her out of the family too. We didn't kick the older one out of the family.....in fact, it was quite the opposite. My husband all but begged her stay and work through the problems she was upset about and she refused. I can't let her poison her younger sister. [/QUOTE]
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