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Since the topic came up, do you feel you were too harsh with your child as a child?
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<blockquote data-quote="BackintheSaddle" data-source="post: 623363" data-attributes="member: 17503"><p>Hey MWM== haven't chatted with you in awhile...hope you're ok...my difficult child is the only child and I gave him most everything...I let him get away with far too much, always took the easy punishment because for at least the last 7-8 years, he's clearly been mentally ill and I felt sorry for him, knew he needed concessions and gave him far too many...I also let him go off his medications at age 16...that was a big mistake but I didn't know what else to do...he had become convinced there was nothing wrong with him and wasn't taking them anyway-- even if he 'took' them in front of us, I'd find them later buried under the couch or whatever...so we went in and talked to his psychiatrist...turns out that research shows about 60% of kids diagnosed young with bipolar actually don't have that diagnosis as adults-- they grow out of it?...difficult child was taking Lithium at the time and my rationale was that once he left home to go to college (I was still delusional at that point), he would stop taking them so it seemed safer to me to have him stop while he was still home, we could help him monitor any symptoms and he agreed to take medications if he had symptoms...and he did ok for almost a year but then started taking a turn for the worse and refused to take medications...the cycle was beginning again and we were in for a long 3 years...lots of things I'd do over but at the end of the day, I believe I did all I could to help him and give him the tools he needs to cope with his disabilities...I was always there for him, doing my best...I don't blame myself for his situation now but there sure are plenty of things I wish I'd done differently (first and foremost-- never allowed my parents back into our lives about 2 years ago-- big mistake)...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackintheSaddle, post: 623363, member: 17503"] Hey MWM== haven't chatted with you in awhile...hope you're ok...my difficult child is the only child and I gave him most everything...I let him get away with far too much, always took the easy punishment because for at least the last 7-8 years, he's clearly been mentally ill and I felt sorry for him, knew he needed concessions and gave him far too many...I also let him go off his medications at age 16...that was a big mistake but I didn't know what else to do...he had become convinced there was nothing wrong with him and wasn't taking them anyway-- even if he 'took' them in front of us, I'd find them later buried under the couch or whatever...so we went in and talked to his psychiatrist...turns out that research shows about 60% of kids diagnosed young with bipolar actually don't have that diagnosis as adults-- they grow out of it?...difficult child was taking Lithium at the time and my rationale was that once he left home to go to college (I was still delusional at that point), he would stop taking them so it seemed safer to me to have him stop while he was still home, we could help him monitor any symptoms and he agreed to take medications if he had symptoms...and he did ok for almost a year but then started taking a turn for the worse and refused to take medications...the cycle was beginning again and we were in for a long 3 years...lots of things I'd do over but at the end of the day, I believe I did all I could to help him and give him the tools he needs to cope with his disabilities...I was always there for him, doing my best...I don't blame myself for his situation now but there sure are plenty of things I wish I'd done differently (first and foremost-- never allowed my parents back into our lives about 2 years ago-- big mistake)... [/QUOTE]
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