In a thread just a few months ago, you described your son doing the following: "He has threatened us with knives, messed up our house, tried to break into properties, threatened a local shopkeeper with a plank of wood, and is often aggressive and unreasonable.

This week he has had some after school detentions for silly things. Also a policeman came around to give him some advice: don't make bomb threats. He rang up his school on 12th May saying it was going to be blown up.

On Friday the deputy head of his school rang to say that he has been chasing another boy from the school and threatening him with a brick. Apparently he threw the brick into the road where there were cars, although he did not hit one. The boy's mother was in tears."

Your son is a danger to you and to other people -- a serious danger. I don't think inpatient treatment sounds like overkill at all. His behaviors are headed toward seriously and perhaps criminally harming someone. Please work on impressing to authorities/doctors, etc. how serious his behaviors are and how vital it is that his treatment be handled with more intensity and clear intervention. You owe that to the people around you because at that point that he does step over that line into illegality and harming another person, you are going to the the ones held ultimately responsible for the behaviors of your minor child.