Post by anon4now on Aug 8, 2008 7:21:33 GMT -5
Since JJ hijacked my thread, I figured I would start a new one about last nights events. 
I think I mentioned my son had a bad morning. He woke up crying and was very aggressive at the breakfast table, and was hitting himself later on. When I got home (my tenstion headache already started around 3) DH reported bad behavior all day except between the hours of 2-3. He was passing the torch. We scarfed down a quick dinner and ran off to the new psychiatrist. As soon as we pulled in the parking lot, my DS slumped in the back seat. Walking into the office, he had dark rings under his eyes and was very pale. He was mad. We went into the doc's office where he curled up on the chair and basically just beat on himself the whole time. He was pulling his hair, biting his arms and legs, twisting his hands, picking at this skin. The doc was just doing intake questions that weren't touched by the psychologist or she wanted further information. I felt a little unprepared since I had done all of this with the psychologist, and I didn't have the questions before hand like with the psychologist. She kept asking when things started, and I couldn't give her a good answer.
She tried to talk to DS, but he would just say I don't know, or double talk, answering No then Yes to the same question. The gist of his conversation was, he had already decided to run away on Saturday so all of this would just go away. Everyone would be happier so why not. About an hour into it, I got full blown tension headache. I could hardly keep my eyes open. I figured she would be done soon and I just told her my composure changed b/c of the headache. Another 45 mins went by, and she switched modes back to DS, she wanted to determine if he was safe to go home. He was one explosive comment away from being hospitalized.
She suggested a "Higher level of care." It was hard to understand what she was talking about because she's brand new to the practice (like she started yesterday) and she's not familiar with the program. But the way I understand it (and I repeated it to her and she said yes) is it's an outpatient program almost like an after school program, that offers group therapy, and one on one therapy, and a psychiatrist on duty to monitor medication needs. It can be as little as 3 days to up to 6 days a week.
She's going to put a referral in today with the help of his psychologist (so we'll see what his psychologist says b/c she's seen both sides of DS, distraught, and goofy happy-go-lucky). So she may say it's not necessary, that this doctor hadn't seen the other side yet, which is more often out than the other side. (Does that make sense?)
Anyway, by the time we got up to go, I almost doubled over and threw up because of my headache. I was actually scared to drive home in the dark. But I didn't have my phone on me, and really no one was around that could help. I just took it slow, it was only a 10 min drive to the house.
I'm happy to say, about 20 mins home with my DD and DH, and 3 motrins, my headache went away. I took DD to the grocery store as a treat with mom (b/c DS always goes out with mom without her) and that was that.
We'll see what today brings. I'm going to call the psychologist to find out about this higher level of care thing. I hope this all doesn't move too fast, but I'm glad we're not stalled at "wait and see."
Thanks for listening.
Anon
I think I mentioned my son had a bad morning. He woke up crying and was very aggressive at the breakfast table, and was hitting himself later on. When I got home (my tenstion headache already started around 3) DH reported bad behavior all day except between the hours of 2-3. He was passing the torch. We scarfed down a quick dinner and ran off to the new psychiatrist. As soon as we pulled in the parking lot, my DS slumped in the back seat. Walking into the office, he had dark rings under his eyes and was very pale. He was mad. We went into the doc's office where he curled up on the chair and basically just beat on himself the whole time. He was pulling his hair, biting his arms and legs, twisting his hands, picking at this skin. The doc was just doing intake questions that weren't touched by the psychologist or she wanted further information. I felt a little unprepared since I had done all of this with the psychologist, and I didn't have the questions before hand like with the psychologist. She kept asking when things started, and I couldn't give her a good answer.
She tried to talk to DS, but he would just say I don't know, or double talk, answering No then Yes to the same question. The gist of his conversation was, he had already decided to run away on Saturday so all of this would just go away. Everyone would be happier so why not. About an hour into it, I got full blown tension headache. I could hardly keep my eyes open. I figured she would be done soon and I just told her my composure changed b/c of the headache. Another 45 mins went by, and she switched modes back to DS, she wanted to determine if he was safe to go home. He was one explosive comment away from being hospitalized.
She suggested a "Higher level of care." It was hard to understand what she was talking about because she's brand new to the practice (like she started yesterday) and she's not familiar with the program. But the way I understand it (and I repeated it to her and she said yes) is it's an outpatient program almost like an after school program, that offers group therapy, and one on one therapy, and a psychiatrist on duty to monitor medication needs. It can be as little as 3 days to up to 6 days a week.
She's going to put a referral in today with the help of his psychologist (so we'll see what his psychologist says b/c she's seen both sides of DS, distraught, and goofy happy-go-lucky). So she may say it's not necessary, that this doctor hadn't seen the other side yet, which is more often out than the other side. (Does that make sense?)
Anyway, by the time we got up to go, I almost doubled over and threw up because of my headache. I was actually scared to drive home in the dark. But I didn't have my phone on me, and really no one was around that could help. I just took it slow, it was only a 10 min drive to the house.
I'm happy to say, about 20 mins home with my DD and DH, and 3 motrins, my headache went away. I took DD to the grocery store as a treat with mom (b/c DS always goes out with mom without her) and that was that.
We'll see what today brings. I'm going to call the psychologist to find out about this higher level of care thing. I hope this all doesn't move too fast, but I'm glad we're not stalled at "wait and see."
Thanks for listening.
Anon
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