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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 415354" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>Hi M2TG,</p><p>My 16 year old difficult child also has PTSD. She was repeatedly molested as a young child by an extended family member and then gang raped when 13. She was a good kid until she hit puberty and all hell broke lose. She has been a huge challenge. 18 months of residential treatment (where we found out about her sexual abuse), and now a therapeutic foster home and DBT day treatment because we could not keep her from running away from school and sexually acting out. We have her weekends.</p><p>Manipulation is her middle name, but my understanding is that they have a difficult time even knowing what they are doing. It is usually around protecting themselves and controlling everything. EMDR therapy has a pretty high success rate for treating this. We had just started this-but it is on hold until the DBT therapy is established.</p><p>I have felt the same way as you. Please understand that you are doing your best and that wrong and right parenting is so fuzzy with our challenging kids. She needs you to keep loving her and setting firm limits (which she will challenge and try to make you feel bad for). Take care of yourself and know that there a wonderful people here that support each other. Hugs!</p><p>We have had almost no luck with cognitive therapy and the residential treatment made everything even worse. Hind-sight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 415354, member: 11001"] Hi M2TG, My 16 year old difficult child also has PTSD. She was repeatedly molested as a young child by an extended family member and then gang raped when 13. She was a good kid until she hit puberty and all hell broke lose. She has been a huge challenge. 18 months of residential treatment (where we found out about her sexual abuse), and now a therapeutic foster home and DBT day treatment because we could not keep her from running away from school and sexually acting out. We have her weekends. Manipulation is her middle name, but my understanding is that they have a difficult time even knowing what they are doing. It is usually around protecting themselves and controlling everything. EMDR therapy has a pretty high success rate for treating this. We had just started this-but it is on hold until the DBT therapy is established. I have felt the same way as you. Please understand that you are doing your best and that wrong and right parenting is so fuzzy with our challenging kids. She needs you to keep loving her and setting firm limits (which she will challenge and try to make you feel bad for). Take care of yourself and know that there a wonderful people here that support each other. Hugs! We have had almost no luck with cognitive therapy and the residential treatment made everything even worse. Hind-sight. [/QUOTE]
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