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<blockquote data-quote="ellenr1" data-source="post: 18598" data-attributes="member: 2547"><p>Louissa:</p><p></p><p>My two oldest kids have 7 inpatient hospitalizations between them. It goes like this: they threaten or do something dangerous, they get admitted for observation, which lasts exactly one week, then they get discharged, because that is what the managed care insurance industry dictates. Sometimes the doctors can buy additional time but not always, and then it's a choice as to whether you want to pay upwards of $1,000 per day for continued hospitalization.</p><p></p><p>My advice is, if you feel that your child is a threat to the safety of your other children, to you, or to herself, you must bring her back to the emergency room. I know, it's hard when you know you're going to sit there for hours and hours before they even make a decision if she meets the criteria, but believe me, no hospital wants to be stuck with a lawsuit from parents whose child did something dreadful after a doctor discharged them. </p><p></p><p>My son was 9 the first time he was hospitalized for anxiety and ODD (he tried to poison me and kept slapping and punching me, trashed the house, threatened his little sister with a knife). He was hospitalized for seven days. Took him home on a Friday afternoon, he was back in the hospital by Sunday night and stayed two more weeks. He went bonkers and tried to jump out a second floor window (they had upped his Zoloft but never told us about the side effects) after he hit me again. He actually slapped me in the car on the ride home from the hospital (I was alone with him) but I was so guilt-ridden over the hospital stay I didn't even tell my husband about it. I should have turned the frikkin' car around and gone right back to the facility.</p><p></p><p>You need a safety plan in place before she is discharged. Insist that the hospital social worker draw one up with you.</p><p></p><p>And good luck. It's awful, what you are going through right now, but so many of us have lived through it and survived and learned from it. You will get support here. The suggestion to contact NAMI is excellent, and I highly recommend getting yourself to a local support group meeting . They will listen and help you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ellenr1, post: 18598, member: 2547"] Louissa: My two oldest kids have 7 inpatient hospitalizations between them. It goes like this: they threaten or do something dangerous, they get admitted for observation, which lasts exactly one week, then they get discharged, because that is what the managed care insurance industry dictates. Sometimes the doctors can buy additional time but not always, and then it's a choice as to whether you want to pay upwards of $1,000 per day for continued hospitalization. My advice is, if you feel that your child is a threat to the safety of your other children, to you, or to herself, you must bring her back to the emergency room. I know, it's hard when you know you're going to sit there for hours and hours before they even make a decision if she meets the criteria, but believe me, no hospital wants to be stuck with a lawsuit from parents whose child did something dreadful after a doctor discharged them. My son was 9 the first time he was hospitalized for anxiety and ODD (he tried to poison me and kept slapping and punching me, trashed the house, threatened his little sister with a knife). He was hospitalized for seven days. Took him home on a Friday afternoon, he was back in the hospital by Sunday night and stayed two more weeks. He went bonkers and tried to jump out a second floor window (they had upped his Zoloft but never told us about the side effects) after he hit me again. He actually slapped me in the car on the ride home from the hospital (I was alone with him) but I was so guilt-ridden over the hospital stay I didn't even tell my husband about it. I should have turned the frikkin' car around and gone right back to the facility. You need a safety plan in place before she is discharged. Insist that the hospital social worker draw one up with you. And good luck. It's awful, what you are going through right now, but so many of us have lived through it and survived and learned from it. You will get support here. The suggestion to contact NAMI is excellent, and I highly recommend getting yourself to a local support group meeting . They will listen and help you. [/QUOTE]
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