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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 238742" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>He sees psychiatrist for 15 min appts every few weeks at most. I thought it was the tegretol helping- but now I'm not sure. He had a major increase in dosage at his last psychiatric hospital stay but was still aggressive and cycling the first couple of days he came home. Then, he was great for 3 1/2 days, then burst into aggression and staying up all night Sun. He slept most of yesterday, stayed up all night, went to school today. He's sleeping now but woke up to eat. Today was the first day he's gone to school before this last psychiatric hospital stay. Marg brought up an interesting point about Naltrexone on another thread, and I'm wondering if that might have contributed to the aggression. He ran out of it so he hasn't had it for 2 days. It was given to him to stop endorphine release to help him stop cutting.</p><p></p><p>Our crisis at home though includes my financial crisis from having to stay home from work and supervise him. The house is a disaster- he has nearly wrecked it and I can't afford to get it fixed. He needs a mentor along with supervision. There's so much in a disastrous state right now- I can't believe anyone could possibly really believe that a behavior contract is going to turn this around- I can't even make this mos bills.</p><p></p><p>It appeaars that SD doesn't want to get blamed for anything and definitely doesn't want to pay for anything. DSS doesn't want involved and they want to put everything in the hands of Department of Juvenile Justice. It's all a joke. I looked up what our county mental health offers for in home therapy. Other than MST, they have an in home but it's for 4-12 yo with psychiatric disorders (so it says) but it's only a therapist coming to home up to 4 times a week or something like that. None of the other services that most extenive in home services have available. Plus- he's 14yo, not 4-12.</p><p></p><p>I wish we had a child/adolescent psychiatrist around here who did counseling for BiPolar (BP). I wish we could have found one a year ago. I feel it is neglectful and unsafe and a risk to keep difficult child in the home under these circumstances. Plus, we cannot get things turned around without some major intervention and I seriously cannot take ONE MORE demand on me right now. I'm so far in the hole from not being able to meet the demands I already had that if I started tomorrow with a perfect situation, it would take me until difficult child is out of high school, at least, to even see above water.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 238742, member: 3699"] He sees psychiatrist for 15 min appts every few weeks at most. I thought it was the tegretol helping- but now I'm not sure. He had a major increase in dosage at his last psychiatric hospital stay but was still aggressive and cycling the first couple of days he came home. Then, he was great for 3 1/2 days, then burst into aggression and staying up all night Sun. He slept most of yesterday, stayed up all night, went to school today. He's sleeping now but woke up to eat. Today was the first day he's gone to school before this last psychiatric hospital stay. Marg brought up an interesting point about Naltrexone on another thread, and I'm wondering if that might have contributed to the aggression. He ran out of it so he hasn't had it for 2 days. It was given to him to stop endorphine release to help him stop cutting. Our crisis at home though includes my financial crisis from having to stay home from work and supervise him. The house is a disaster- he has nearly wrecked it and I can't afford to get it fixed. He needs a mentor along with supervision. There's so much in a disastrous state right now- I can't believe anyone could possibly really believe that a behavior contract is going to turn this around- I can't even make this mos bills. It appeaars that SD doesn't want to get blamed for anything and definitely doesn't want to pay for anything. DSS doesn't want involved and they want to put everything in the hands of Department of Juvenile Justice. It's all a joke. I looked up what our county mental health offers for in home therapy. Other than MST, they have an in home but it's for 4-12 yo with psychiatric disorders (so it says) but it's only a therapist coming to home up to 4 times a week or something like that. None of the other services that most extenive in home services have available. Plus- he's 14yo, not 4-12. I wish we had a child/adolescent psychiatrist around here who did counseling for BiPolar (BP). I wish we could have found one a year ago. I feel it is neglectful and unsafe and a risk to keep difficult child in the home under these circumstances. Plus, we cannot get things turned around without some major intervention and I seriously cannot take ONE MORE demand on me right now. I'm so far in the hole from not being able to meet the demands I already had that if I started tomorrow with a perfect situation, it would take me until difficult child is out of high school, at least, to even see above water. [/QUOTE]
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