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seeking support (WNC GAL???) as my daughter had suicidal issues, in PRTF now
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<blockquote data-quote="carolinwaxhaw" data-source="post: 538590" data-attributes="member: 14846"><p>Hi Janet: Thanks for your response. What you wrote about your son looking back on his treatment is beautiful. (We are slightly south of Charlotte and she was at Broughton (in Morganton) and I HATED Broughton!!!) I went to a Parent Voice (Mental Health Assoc support group) and one of the moms said her son had a suicide attempt and was admitted to a PRTF and now thanked her for saving his life and that is what keeps me going! I just pray my daughter will get through this - - one of the horrible things of all of this is that my daughter is a GREAT GIRL - she is an athlete, she has a high IQ, she is smart, she is VERY loving and has always been a Mommy's girl and unfortunately being in the psychiatric hospitals etc she has PICKED UP a lot of horrific stuff and heard awful life stories - - to the point that one day she told me (after some group session) - "Mommy, I didn't have a bad childhood" aaawwwwww. I love her so much and believe the bulk of the problem is that she feels a very deep wound of rejection from her bio family (she is aware that of the five known children of her birth mom that NONE of them live with the birth mom and 3 of them went to the parents of their separate fathers; one of them went to his bio father; and my daughter is the ONLY ONE who did not have a dad come forward and did not have paternal grandparents who took placement of her....one of the nurses at Broughton said - - maybe she is the lucky one - - which is a nice way of looking at it but it is probably not my daughter's way of looking at it... (How long was your son at Dorothea Dix?) My daughter was at Presbyterian's Adolescent Unit in Charlotte and picked up on behavior of the other patients and learned a lot of horrible stuff from them. When about 7 kids were being discharged over a 2 day period my daughter TRIED to talk with the staff about her feelings and no one would really talk with her!!!! (I am very very upset about this) and she took a shoelace from her sneakers and put it around her neck and then walked herself to the nurse's station. PRAISE GOD! Anyway it was that incident which caused the psychiatrist to have her transferred to Broughton for a "higher level of care" but I expected a real therapeutic breakthrough at Broughton and was very disappointed it did not happen. I am grateful they kept her safe and diagnosed her with a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) - - she was there approx 5 weeks before being admitted to the PRTF where she is now and where I feel she is making progress. She was expected to be at this PRTF for 6 months (March 20-Sept 20)/</p><p></p><p>Anyway, Janet, thanks for your response -- would love to hear more from you.</p><p></p><p>Carol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="carolinwaxhaw, post: 538590, member: 14846"] Hi Janet: Thanks for your response. What you wrote about your son looking back on his treatment is beautiful. (We are slightly south of Charlotte and she was at Broughton (in Morganton) and I HATED Broughton!!!) I went to a Parent Voice (Mental Health Assoc support group) and one of the moms said her son had a suicide attempt and was admitted to a PRTF and now thanked her for saving his life and that is what keeps me going! I just pray my daughter will get through this - - one of the horrible things of all of this is that my daughter is a GREAT GIRL - she is an athlete, she has a high IQ, she is smart, she is VERY loving and has always been a Mommy's girl and unfortunately being in the psychiatric hospitals etc she has PICKED UP a lot of horrific stuff and heard awful life stories - - to the point that one day she told me (after some group session) - "Mommy, I didn't have a bad childhood" aaawwwwww. I love her so much and believe the bulk of the problem is that she feels a very deep wound of rejection from her bio family (she is aware that of the five known children of her birth mom that NONE of them live with the birth mom and 3 of them went to the parents of their separate fathers; one of them went to his bio father; and my daughter is the ONLY ONE who did not have a dad come forward and did not have paternal grandparents who took placement of her....one of the nurses at Broughton said - - maybe she is the lucky one - - which is a nice way of looking at it but it is probably not my daughter's way of looking at it... (How long was your son at Dorothea Dix?) My daughter was at Presbyterian's Adolescent Unit in Charlotte and picked up on behavior of the other patients and learned a lot of horrible stuff from them. When about 7 kids were being discharged over a 2 day period my daughter TRIED to talk with the staff about her feelings and no one would really talk with her!!!! (I am very very upset about this) and she took a shoelace from her sneakers and put it around her neck and then walked herself to the nurse's station. PRAISE GOD! Anyway it was that incident which caused the psychiatrist to have her transferred to Broughton for a "higher level of care" but I expected a real therapeutic breakthrough at Broughton and was very disappointed it did not happen. I am grateful they kept her safe and diagnosed her with a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) - - she was there approx 5 weeks before being admitted to the PRTF where she is now and where I feel she is making progress. She was expected to be at this PRTF for 6 months (March 20-Sept 20)/ Anyway, Janet, thanks for your response -- would love to hear more from you. Carol [/QUOTE]
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