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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 670414" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Although I have/had 5 current and former teenagers, I have no experience with drug or alcohol use. However, I do have experience with anxiety which is school based and I have a suggestion that might seem out of the box to you, but might be something you'd like to discuss with your son and husband.</p><p></p><p>My oldest son is Aspie-light and had some social anxiety issues. After 9th grade, we switched him to an alternative school which specialized in kids with those issues. It also had a program for kids with generalized anxiety and other mental health issues. He's 25 now and although he didn't graduate from college and is underemployed given his intelligence, he is much less anxious now (no medications), has friends and even a girlfriend. He is finally starting to mature and H and I have hope for his future.</p><p></p><p>Second son is off the charts brilliant but had school anxiety. We resisted moving him to an alternative school and he wound up graduating HS late, because he failed English. He took a year off, went to college and was thrown out for poor grades last semester. After that, he confessed feelings to us which are similar to your son's (inability to decide what he wants to study, inability to deal with not being perfect, etc.). We got him into counseling and were able to expunge the last semester. He's away at school, in counseling, no medications and actually calls or texts us once in awhile. When he was younger, his diagnosis was ODD.</p><p></p><p>Maybe you might want to look into a different HS for your son since the one he is in seems to fueling the anxiety. In my district, we have a HS which is referred to as a portfolio school - there are no grades, just write ups and when it comes time for college, the teachers write joint recommendations for the students based on their work with them. The kids get into some very nice schools - one graduate is in the entertainment industry and is someone you would likely have heard of. A school like that might relieve your son's anxiety and if he is less anxious, he might feel less of a need to self-medicate, That is not the school my son went to but I know several kids who went there and the parents have all been pleased.</p><p></p><p>Good luck...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 670414, member: 3493"] Although I have/had 5 current and former teenagers, I have no experience with drug or alcohol use. However, I do have experience with anxiety which is school based and I have a suggestion that might seem out of the box to you, but might be something you'd like to discuss with your son and husband. My oldest son is Aspie-light and had some social anxiety issues. After 9th grade, we switched him to an alternative school which specialized in kids with those issues. It also had a program for kids with generalized anxiety and other mental health issues. He's 25 now and although he didn't graduate from college and is underemployed given his intelligence, he is much less anxious now (no medications), has friends and even a girlfriend. He is finally starting to mature and H and I have hope for his future. Second son is off the charts brilliant but had school anxiety. We resisted moving him to an alternative school and he wound up graduating HS late, because he failed English. He took a year off, went to college and was thrown out for poor grades last semester. After that, he confessed feelings to us which are similar to your son's (inability to decide what he wants to study, inability to deal with not being perfect, etc.). We got him into counseling and were able to expunge the last semester. He's away at school, in counseling, no medications and actually calls or texts us once in awhile. When he was younger, his diagnosis was ODD. Maybe you might want to look into a different HS for your son since the one he is in seems to fueling the anxiety. In my district, we have a HS which is referred to as a portfolio school - there are no grades, just write ups and when it comes time for college, the teachers write joint recommendations for the students based on their work with them. The kids get into some very nice schools - one graduate is in the entertainment industry and is someone you would likely have heard of. A school like that might relieve your son's anxiety and if he is less anxious, he might feel less of a need to self-medicate, That is not the school my son went to but I know several kids who went there and the parents have all been pleased. Good luck... [/QUOTE]
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