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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 48755" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>well, the pysch is a in a small group with the psychiatrist and therapists. we started going there last year after we had gone to a family therapist because my son's behavior had suddenly changed drastically. the therapist recommended this group (the psychiatrist specificly) because my difficult child's behavior was becoming erratic and the therapist said this was getting over his head and he thought he should have a psychiatrist evaluation. the psychiatrist recommended getting psychiatric testing, (i guess that was his evaluation) so i scheduled it but before the testing ever took place, my difficult child had become such a danger to himself (and i did think someone else could get hurt in the process), that i took him to an acute pediat hospital. he was there for 9 days, diagnosis'd with- major depression and bipolar, then released to go back to his school, psychiatrist, etc. </p><p></p><p>it just seems odd to me that no one at this group mentioned the need after hospital release for any other testing (which i didn't even know existed)and that the things the psychiatric documented were just little clips about behavior, nothing about state of mind. in her report, she wrote "he set fires" ok, well, i described above what he did. i can tell you, when you look out your window and see your child swinging a swing that has flames coming from it (no one else in the yard, no animals, etc), i didn't think "oh, he's an arsonist", i thought "OMG, he's about to set himself on fire and needs to go in the hospital (this was at the same period he was trying to jump out of the car and other things. did she document the jumping out of car, rolling around on floor with- knife and saying how he didn't care about his life anymore? no, she documents "sets fires, is non-compliant". really, it looks like she picked out the facts that supported CD and not the whole picture. i'm unhappy too, that with what i know now, why hospital put him on prozac.</p><p></p><p>i've since learned about how different types of therapy work for different diagnosis's; so, if the diagnosis we started out with was that preliminary (they all said they really weren't sure but depression was in there), then why, when i continuously told them all that therapist's method was agitating things in our lives more, did they not consider that maybe they should keep the rule-outs in the back of their minds, instead of just acting like we didn't want to go with the flow?</p><p></p><p>i'm just frustrated, and wish i understood more about all this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 48755, member: 3699"] well, the pysch is a in a small group with the psychiatrist and therapists. we started going there last year after we had gone to a family therapist because my son's behavior had suddenly changed drastically. the therapist recommended this group (the psychiatrist specificly) because my difficult child's behavior was becoming erratic and the therapist said this was getting over his head and he thought he should have a psychiatrist evaluation. the psychiatrist recommended getting psychiatric testing, (i guess that was his evaluation) so i scheduled it but before the testing ever took place, my difficult child had become such a danger to himself (and i did think someone else could get hurt in the process), that i took him to an acute pediat hospital. he was there for 9 days, diagnosis'd with- major depression and bipolar, then released to go back to his school, psychiatrist, etc. it just seems odd to me that no one at this group mentioned the need after hospital release for any other testing (which i didn't even know existed)and that the things the psychiatric documented were just little clips about behavior, nothing about state of mind. in her report, she wrote "he set fires" ok, well, i described above what he did. i can tell you, when you look out your window and see your child swinging a swing that has flames coming from it (no one else in the yard, no animals, etc), i didn't think "oh, he's an arsonist", i thought "OMG, he's about to set himself on fire and needs to go in the hospital (this was at the same period he was trying to jump out of the car and other things. did she document the jumping out of car, rolling around on floor with- knife and saying how he didn't care about his life anymore? no, she documents "sets fires, is non-compliant". really, it looks like she picked out the facts that supported CD and not the whole picture. i'm unhappy too, that with what i know now, why hospital put him on prozac. i've since learned about how different types of therapy work for different diagnosis's; so, if the diagnosis we started out with was that preliminary (they all said they really weren't sure but depression was in there), then why, when i continuously told them all that therapist's method was agitating things in our lives more, did they not consider that maybe they should keep the rule-outs in the back of their minds, instead of just acting like we didn't want to go with the flow? i'm just frustrated, and wish i understood more about all this. [/QUOTE]
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