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Placement for difficult child ... not going well
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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 542445" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>Terry,</p><p>Oh my gosh so sorry for your shingles! This is so painful. Please care for yourself.</p><p>I also wanted to share what a psychiatric for the inpatient unit told us the first time an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was suggested. He told us that under no circumstances should we go into horrible debt by getting second mortgage or something attached to our home. He said that there is no guarantee these places will work, that difficult child and family needed a home to come home to, and that we still needed to live the rest of our lives. He mentioned that debt was as big a stress as a difficult child when you couldn't pay it. He told us that very few people could really afford these places without help. He told us not to be ashamed and ask evrywhere we could for help, we did because we love her. It was hard to let go of pride and ask everyone and every resource, and yet, we got the help we needed without going into debt. We did have to scrimp, eat alot of cheap food, no new anything, but we did aall right. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>When difficult child was in 1st Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we only ment one family doing it without grandparents, church, school loan, friends or scholarship (yes a few places have these). Most are around 7,000 a month! Anyone who helps also gets a tax write off because these are nonprofits most of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 542445, member: 11001"] Terry, Oh my gosh so sorry for your shingles! This is so painful. Please care for yourself. I also wanted to share what a psychiatric for the inpatient unit told us the first time an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) was suggested. He told us that under no circumstances should we go into horrible debt by getting second mortgage or something attached to our home. He said that there is no guarantee these places will work, that difficult child and family needed a home to come home to, and that we still needed to live the rest of our lives. He mentioned that debt was as big a stress as a difficult child when you couldn't pay it. He told us that very few people could really afford these places without help. He told us not to be ashamed and ask evrywhere we could for help, we did because we love her. It was hard to let go of pride and ask everyone and every resource, and yet, we got the help we needed without going into debt. We did have to scrimp, eat alot of cheap food, no new anything, but we did aall right. :) When difficult child was in 1st Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we only ment one family doing it without grandparents, church, school loan, friends or scholarship (yes a few places have these). Most are around 7,000 a month! Anyone who helps also gets a tax write off because these are nonprofits most of them. [/QUOTE]
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