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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 9539" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I'm really sorry this happened, but, and I'm not defending son, if he has bipolar, he is likely NOT going to be able to maintain unless he's on better medication. Bipolar is a biochemical problem that affects the brain, and he should be on a mood stabilizer, which Abilify isn't. Also, many people with BiPolar (BP) need both a mood stabilizer and an antipsychotic. His bad behavior is most likely the result of unstable bipolar--he could be totally different on the right medications. I have BiPolar (BP) and felt pretty violent off medications, but calm as a clam on medications. At your son's age, I'd break things and say hateful things and throw whopping rages, and this continued into adulthood because I was undiagnosed and unmedicated. It makes a whole world of difference to have the right medications. I don't even feel the need for therapy. Perhaps you should urge the state to get him a re-evaluation with somebody else, hopefully an MD Psychiatrist who understands mood disorders. You really do get out of control in a pretty wild way when you have bipolar and it's not under control. He may be grandiose and actually feel he doesn't owe anyone an apology. Your thinking is pretty distorted. Yet there is hope, if the right treatment is found. Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s aren't that good at figuring out medications. We dealt with them when we had foster kids. And on that topic, foster parents really don't know anything more about troubled kids than any parents do. I was a therapeutic foster mom and thought that meant they'd give us extensive training in different disorders and how to handle kids. Um, no! We got kids!!!! And we tried to learn on the fly, but we didn't know any more than the parents they came from! True, our environment may have been better--we didn't drink or hit, and a lot of the kids came from that sort of home--but knowledge? No. We adopted one of the very young kids, and then we quit foster care. It was horrible for us, the foster parents, and we started not trusting the info we were given by the agency. The kids never got the kind of help we thought they needed. I don't know why Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s send kids to foster care rather than home with a plan, and I'm sorry you have to deal with this long distance. Maybe your child never CAN come home, but he can get better with the right treatment. Just a rant. Hugs and prayers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 9539, member: 1550"] I'm really sorry this happened, but, and I'm not defending son, if he has bipolar, he is likely NOT going to be able to maintain unless he's on better medication. Bipolar is a biochemical problem that affects the brain, and he should be on a mood stabilizer, which Abilify isn't. Also, many people with BiPolar (BP) need both a mood stabilizer and an antipsychotic. His bad behavior is most likely the result of unstable bipolar--he could be totally different on the right medications. I have BiPolar (BP) and felt pretty violent off medications, but calm as a clam on medications. At your son's age, I'd break things and say hateful things and throw whopping rages, and this continued into adulthood because I was undiagnosed and unmedicated. It makes a whole world of difference to have the right medications. I don't even feel the need for therapy. Perhaps you should urge the state to get him a re-evaluation with somebody else, hopefully an MD Psychiatrist who understands mood disorders. You really do get out of control in a pretty wild way when you have bipolar and it's not under control. He may be grandiose and actually feel he doesn't owe anyone an apology. Your thinking is pretty distorted. Yet there is hope, if the right treatment is found. Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s aren't that good at figuring out medications. We dealt with them when we had foster kids. And on that topic, foster parents really don't know anything more about troubled kids than any parents do. I was a therapeutic foster mom and thought that meant they'd give us extensive training in different disorders and how to handle kids. Um, no! We got kids!!!! And we tried to learn on the fly, but we didn't know any more than the parents they came from! True, our environment may have been better--we didn't drink or hit, and a lot of the kids came from that sort of home--but knowledge? No. We adopted one of the very young kids, and then we quit foster care. It was horrible for us, the foster parents, and we started not trusting the info we were given by the agency. The kids never got the kind of help we thought they needed. I don't know why Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s send kids to foster care rather than home with a plan, and I'm sorry you have to deal with this long distance. Maybe your child never CAN come home, but he can get better with the right treatment. Just a rant. Hugs and prayers. [/QUOTE]
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