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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 645690" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I am not sure, but I believe that she'd have to sign her consent to allow you to have access to her treatment. But, really, you can't manage her therapy and nobody can force her to take medication either if she won't. I think that starts earlier, at fourteen (the medication). Sometimes it takes years or decades to figure out what is wrong with somebody. I'm a long term patient, from age 23 to now at 61. Diagnoses change with time too and with the doctor's interpretation. They very rarely stay the same. It is not an exact science. The only thing you can do is stop her from seeing this doctor but be careful. If your daughter has a connection with him, and is doing better, you are lucky she is willing to see anyone at all. If you pull her from this doctor, then you may end up on your own. By age eighteen, you can't know anything or have any control of anything anyway and she isn't that far from it.</p><p></p><p>Many our kids refuse help. Your daughter is asking for it. I'd let her have it even if you don't agree with this doctor. My daughter went to a doctor in her teens and I never knew what they said, except what sh e shared with me. That's how it is. I think the doctor can get into trouble sharing with you without the signed permission of your daughter. In the end this is your daughter's life journey and as every parent of a troubled adult child knows, we can not control them in any way. They write their own stories, even if we don't like them. That includes their treatment, if indeed your daughter still wants treatment. Without it she could totally collapse and get worse. And it sounds like things are already pretty out of control.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 645690, member: 1550"] I am not sure, but I believe that she'd have to sign her consent to allow you to have access to her treatment. But, really, you can't manage her therapy and nobody can force her to take medication either if she won't. I think that starts earlier, at fourteen (the medication). Sometimes it takes years or decades to figure out what is wrong with somebody. I'm a long term patient, from age 23 to now at 61. Diagnoses change with time too and with the doctor's interpretation. They very rarely stay the same. It is not an exact science. The only thing you can do is stop her from seeing this doctor but be careful. If your daughter has a connection with him, and is doing better, you are lucky she is willing to see anyone at all. If you pull her from this doctor, then you may end up on your own. By age eighteen, you can't know anything or have any control of anything anyway and she isn't that far from it. Many our kids refuse help. Your daughter is asking for it. I'd let her have it even if you don't agree with this doctor. My daughter went to a doctor in her teens and I never knew what they said, except what sh e shared with me. That's how it is. I think the doctor can get into trouble sharing with you without the signed permission of your daughter. In the end this is your daughter's life journey and as every parent of a troubled adult child knows, we can not control them in any way. They write their own stories, even if we don't like them. That includes their treatment, if indeed your daughter still wants treatment. Without it she could totally collapse and get worse. And it sounds like things are already pretty out of control. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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