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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 658427" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Heh, Terry.</p><p></p><p>I still t hink psychiatrist soft-peddled it. I think it's beyond what he said. We had the same problem with the psychologist we took Princess to see. Most therapists tend to be way too soft on the kids, adults or not, in my opinion. The one Princess saw told her to tell me that I need to trust her more.</p><p></p><p>Now I didn't go into the sessions, even though she was a minor. She wouldn't talk at all if I was there,. But she would talk a little if I wasn't. God knows if any of that was true...she was taking drugs at the time. When she said that to me, she was very smug.</p><p></p><p>I didn't even know how to respond. She was on parole for drugs and we had just learned she was climbing out her window every night to run the streets and she never told us the truth about anything and his advice was that we should trust her more? I told her I didn't agree and that she'd have to earn our trust (when I could gather my wits to answer). She didn't want to go back and we didn't make her go back.</p><p></p><p>The fact is, your son is g oing to be a father and he doesn't care. He is using drugs and the psychiatrist isn't addressing it. Instead he is trying to fix it with psychiatric drugs which Son will mix with recreational drugs and which are not working. He's been taking them for years. He is doing what he does out of defiance, not due to any disorder. So was my daughter. However, she did get a whopping bipolar diagnosis while she was using drugs. The bipolar seems to have disappeared since she quit.</p><p></p><p>At your son's age,<em><strong> in my opinion</strong></em>, not only should you not sit with him in a psychiatrist's office, but he needs to be pushed to grow up and be responsible, even if he is now functioning as a fifteen year old. They grow up FAST when we stop making excuses for them and doing stuff for them, paying for them and stop TREATING them as if they are young teenagers. They have no choice but to grow up if we stop treating them like they are younger than they are.</p><p></p><p>At any rate, I wish you lots of luck, hope the medications help and hope this kid grows up so that he can be a father. I have a very low expectation that D. is going to actually give her child up for adoption. Most girls these days just will not do it and renege even if a family is already picked out. If she does not put the baby up for adoption, she can finger him as the father and go to court for child support and get it. Hopefully she will do right by the child, but it is extremely rare that it happens these days. A friend of ours (a couple) had three birthmothers pick them out for their babies and all three backed out so they went the foster care to adopt route.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 658427, member: 1550"] Heh, Terry. I still t hink psychiatrist soft-peddled it. I think it's beyond what he said. We had the same problem with the psychologist we took Princess to see. Most therapists tend to be way too soft on the kids, adults or not, in my opinion. The one Princess saw told her to tell me that I need to trust her more. Now I didn't go into the sessions, even though she was a minor. She wouldn't talk at all if I was there,. But she would talk a little if I wasn't. God knows if any of that was true...she was taking drugs at the time. When she said that to me, she was very smug. I didn't even know how to respond. She was on parole for drugs and we had just learned she was climbing out her window every night to run the streets and she never told us the truth about anything and his advice was that we should trust her more? I told her I didn't agree and that she'd have to earn our trust (when I could gather my wits to answer). She didn't want to go back and we didn't make her go back. The fact is, your son is g oing to be a father and he doesn't care. He is using drugs and the psychiatrist isn't addressing it. Instead he is trying to fix it with psychiatric drugs which Son will mix with recreational drugs and which are not working. He's been taking them for years. He is doing what he does out of defiance, not due to any disorder. So was my daughter. However, she did get a whopping bipolar diagnosis while she was using drugs. The bipolar seems to have disappeared since she quit. At your son's age,[I][B] in my opinion[/B][/I], not only should you not sit with him in a psychiatrist's office, but he needs to be pushed to grow up and be responsible, even if he is now functioning as a fifteen year old. They grow up FAST when we stop making excuses for them and doing stuff for them, paying for them and stop TREATING them as if they are young teenagers. They have no choice but to grow up if we stop treating them like they are younger than they are. At any rate, I wish you lots of luck, hope the medications help and hope this kid grows up so that he can be a father. I have a very low expectation that D. is going to actually give her child up for adoption. Most girls these days just will not do it and renege even if a family is already picked out. If she does not put the baby up for adoption, she can finger him as the father and go to court for child support and get it. Hopefully she will do right by the child, but it is extremely rare that it happens these days. A friend of ours (a couple) had three birthmothers pick them out for their babies and all three backed out so they went the foster care to adopt route. [/QUOTE]
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