scaredofhim
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How do you handle it when your difficult child will barely talk to their dr. or therapist? SS's behavior continues to go downhill. We went to his appointment. with his psychiatrist last Sat. and the dr. tries and tries to get him to talk to him but he won't. And the in home therapist is not having any luck with him talking to her either. Bio mom has since found a very good child psychologist to take him to as well, and he would not even leave the waiting room to go into the office to talk with her. She had to come to the waiting room to attempt to speak with him. At every appointment. with the psychiatrist he has had, he sits there and pretends he is sleeping, and the most the dr. can get him to say is yes or not to a question and it's even hard to get that out of him. He will just shrug his shoulders and say "I don't know" most of the time. He continues to spend every waking moment on his video games. He gets violent when bio mom tries to take the electronics away from him. We have tried to talk to him about it and he says that he doesn't like talking to strange people he doesn't know, and that there is nothing wrong with him so he doesn't see why he has to do it. Trying to explain to him why it would be good for him gets us nowhere. In the meantime, he has become more sullen and moody. His face and eyes are vacant all the time. He never smiles. He barely talks to anyone unless it's his friend on XBox or the laptop when playing games. I see no hope of anything ever turning around for him if he will not speak to therapists. Drugs are not helping him at all. Any ideas or advice? We feel he is slipping further away from reality, that is how it seems....