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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
OKay, I admit this triggers me as many parents posts do.
So here's a opinion of somebody who was a child with plenty issues once and teenager with some issues... may be considered unsupportive, so skip if you are not ready for perspective from the othert side of fence.
I realize that if I wasn't born to mother who experimented with Buddhism and philosophies.... I may end up at anti-psychotics by age 12. After all meds and designer's clothes was what i was "prescribed" after being send to shrink by my class teacher (for not being giggly happy kids. My father died recently, so I was just in mourning phase).
I am glad my mother never forced pills to me. I am glad I grew up in times and place where I was merely "not paying attention" and not "ADHD" and was not fed the same drugs that armies use for people not to sleep on the job. I am glad that I was never forced into world of psychiatry. It may killed Venus before she could bloom. Sure, some medicated body might be around... but it would not be me, for good and bad.
no offense, but this sounds like disease called "being teenager" and is easily curable with medicine called "time" and "growing up". I was too holed in my room, reading books and books and more books and scribling out stories that I never shown to somebody and worn weird clothes and talked about death a lot and didn't want to talk to people and was defiant to adults and authorities...
as for his meds... well, he had freaking bad reaction of the first one. The other makes him sleepy, which is probably not fun phase of life when you should be full of life. Doesn't sound his medicine is working too well for him.
and gah, when I suffered the "teenager disease" I was too sketch and didn't tell the truth at times (since my mom would not handle it too well  or would judge and judge and judge and when she was done judging, she would judge some more).
Maybe the police didn't act properly, but eh... I don't get calling police on your kids. It will not make 'em respect you more. It will not lead to constructive dialogue. It will not help the relationship between you two. |
This is a boy/almost man who has been threatening suicide since the age of 7. He has slit his wrists vertically the first time he was hospitalized. His evaluations have said he is at risk for self harm & possible harm to others and does not understand reality. He threatened to slit a kids throat from ear to ear, overheard by a teacher. He has admitted to Drs he thinks of suicide every day. (His father informed me of this after he was sent to me).
I do not consider that typical teenage angst.
When I called the police I did not know if his tirade would escalate, and for my daughters protection, my own, and my sons, I would rather be safe.
He was diagnosed as Bipolar I. It's nothing to brush off. The statistics are alarming. I think it's as high as 1 in 5 people with this disorder commit suicide. Not taking his meds put him at risk. We tried it his way for awhile, - no meds - and he said he wanted to die. He wanted to commit suicide.
As a mother I'm supposed to ignore that?