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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 247125" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Heather does your county mental health do intake sessions? Ours does these on several days of the week. (it's the only way to be seen) When Nichole was at her worst after Aubrey was born, I parked her fanny in one of the intake sessions. therapist who saw her said to heck with the manditory 3 therapist visits before seeing the psychiatrist, the girl needed to be seen immediately, and arranged to have it all done together to get Nichole into psychiatrist faster. She slid in under two weeks doing it that way.</p><p> </p><p>(((hugs))) I know how scared and helpless you feel. It was me 4-5 years ago. Nichole wouldn't let me console her at all. It would ruin her "tough girl" image. It was horrible.</p><p> </p><p>One thing I did was something I was taught years ago working on the psychiatric ward. When she would open up about the things that were going on, I did Oscar winning acting performances of keeping anything I was feeling out of my expression. I would concentrate on speaking to her in a calm voice and discuss it as if it were an everyday ordinary event. (yep should've won an Oscar) It helped keep her anxiety down and made her more inclined to talk more to me about it when I didn't freak out or treat her any differently. In the end, it wound up she talked to me about it more than she would to the professionals. She still does. And we made more progress that way. I think it was comforting her in a way she wouldn't let me do otherwise.</p><p> </p><p>Your difficult child going thru this now is bringing up the memories of Nichole going thru it. I don't know if it's my holey brain......or the fact that I'd stuffed them down and tucked them away in order to move forward. It reminds me of exactly how far Nichole has come since she was 15.</p><p> </p><p>(((hugs)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 247125, member: 84"] Heather does your county mental health do intake sessions? Ours does these on several days of the week. (it's the only way to be seen) When Nichole was at her worst after Aubrey was born, I parked her fanny in one of the intake sessions. therapist who saw her said to heck with the manditory 3 therapist visits before seeing the psychiatrist, the girl needed to be seen immediately, and arranged to have it all done together to get Nichole into psychiatrist faster. She slid in under two weeks doing it that way. (((hugs))) I know how scared and helpless you feel. It was me 4-5 years ago. Nichole wouldn't let me console her at all. It would ruin her "tough girl" image. It was horrible. One thing I did was something I was taught years ago working on the psychiatric ward. When she would open up about the things that were going on, I did Oscar winning acting performances of keeping anything I was feeling out of my expression. I would concentrate on speaking to her in a calm voice and discuss it as if it were an everyday ordinary event. (yep should've won an Oscar) It helped keep her anxiety down and made her more inclined to talk more to me about it when I didn't freak out or treat her any differently. In the end, it wound up she talked to me about it more than she would to the professionals. She still does. And we made more progress that way. I think it was comforting her in a way she wouldn't let me do otherwise. Your difficult child going thru this now is bringing up the memories of Nichole going thru it. I don't know if it's my holey brain......or the fact that I'd stuffed them down and tucked them away in order to move forward. It reminds me of exactly how far Nichole has come since she was 15. (((hugs))) [/QUOTE]
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