klmno
Active Member
Has anyone here seen this? It's about a kid named America who is in the foster care system and sent to an Residential Treatment Center (RTC). It shows various problemed kids, of course, and being of a foster care focus, they apparently all come from less than desirable homes, for one reason or another.
My concern/question here is that while I obviously see that coming from neglectful or abusive homes, or shifted around from one place to another causes kids to have problems, what can we do when our difficult child does NOT come from a home like that, yet people ITRW apparently assume that this MUST be the problem? That something must be going on at home that has caused this? If they aren't willing to take psychiatrist and therapist's word for face value, is there anything at all that we parents of kids with axis 1 diagnosis's can do or say to get people to address this any differently? And maybe my son isn't BiPolar (BP)- maybe somehow he ended up with issues that major anyway- but then, HOW?
And then, after watching this movie, it does make me rack my brain wondering (for the thousandth time) if it's at all possible that maybe something did happen to my son that I'm still not aware of. But I do not know of any opportunity that someone else could have had to do something drastic enough to him that would caused him this much problem. And I can't believe, knowing my son, that if something that bad had happened that he wouldn't tell me or somebody else.
My concern/question here is that while I obviously see that coming from neglectful or abusive homes, or shifted around from one place to another causes kids to have problems, what can we do when our difficult child does NOT come from a home like that, yet people ITRW apparently assume that this MUST be the problem? That something must be going on at home that has caused this? If they aren't willing to take psychiatrist and therapist's word for face value, is there anything at all that we parents of kids with axis 1 diagnosis's can do or say to get people to address this any differently? And maybe my son isn't BiPolar (BP)- maybe somehow he ended up with issues that major anyway- but then, HOW?
And then, after watching this movie, it does make me rack my brain wondering (for the thousandth time) if it's at all possible that maybe something did happen to my son that I'm still not aware of. But I do not know of any opportunity that someone else could have had to do something drastic enough to him that would caused him this much problem. And I can't believe, knowing my son, that if something that bad had happened that he wouldn't tell me or somebody else.