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Sep 04, 2015, 06:49 AM
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Member Since: Sep 2015
Location: Rome
Posts: 5
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Originally Posted by BAPsych1988
Have you had these issues since you were 15? That's pretty young. What was it like back then? how did it all start? I ask because my son is 15 and he began isolating and talking/laughing to himself about a year ago and we are trying to figure out how to help him. He jogs around the house a lot thinking and laughing and occasionally turns destructive and angry. He went off the meds he'd been taking for the past 6 weeks and the outbursts began. He went back to taking meds last week, thankfully, so we hope he can function well enough for school! Last school year was a nightmare!
Sorry to go on and on. I wish you the best! Take care of yourself. I really think meds can help.
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Thank you. I'm sorry for your son, and what he and you must be going through. I don't really know how you can help him, as I didn't receive help at the time. My father was never home, and my mother was very abusive and nasty towards me, especially at that age. She always picked on me, and dismissed my problems - I had eating disorders at the time, too - by saying I was just "playing the victim", or just "too emotional". I didn't receive professional attention until I was 20, and by that time I was already quite a damaged individual. My mother has changed a lot since then, thankfully, I suppose because I learnt to defend myself from her, but I'm sure that my life would have been completely different, had she been more respectful, attentive and understanding towards me. So in my mind, I believe you're already doing the best you can do for your son, that is to be there for him, and finding a way of making him feel part of the family, rather than a flaw within it, as he probably doesn't feel a part of the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is most likely not going to help him to feel a part of it, if he doesn't himself. Another advice I'd like to give, is: if he has any creative interests and passions, encourage them as much as you can. I stopped making art, playing the piano, writing, at a certain point, because my mother always interrupted and harrassed me. But they were the only things that were helping me at the time.
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