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<blockquote data-quote="recovering doormat" data-source="post: 277322" data-attributes="member: 5941"><p>You poor thing! That doctor is incompetent and dangerous. I'm praying she didn't say all of that stuff in front of your stepson. </p><p> </p><p>Everything you have told us about this child screams that he needs a good, long-term (12 to 18 month) placement in a facility that can confirm his diagnosis, make sure the medications are right, and help him work on his problems. and the rest of you surely need a break before you all collapse. </p><p> </p><p>I could smack that doctor for talking to your husband that way. </p><p> </p><p>Risperadal was given to my son in a small dose after his first hospitalization (zoloft and risperadal). His diagnosis was Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and ODD and the risperadal was for impulse control. The only issue was that it tended to make him sluggish in the morning, and that affected his school work. </p><p> </p><p>This incident with the knife jolted me back to the first time our son was hospitalized at age 9. He was there for seven days, discharged (reluctantly by the therapist, who felt that she didn't get to see the real kid) on a Friday afternoon, and by Sunday night, I was calling 911 to get help to take him back to the psychiatric hospital. He went crazy adn was running around the house, tried to push a second floor window screen out to jump out the window. He went back to the psychiatric hospital that night and stayed for two weeks. When we brought him back to the hospital the social worker on duty at the nurses' station said he wasn't surprised, that he had predicted we would be back. These short stays just don't cut it with disturbed kids.</p><p> </p><p>As it turned out, my son had his fifth inpatient hospital stay this past January; the good news is that he is no longer violent toward people or property.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recovering doormat, post: 277322, member: 5941"] You poor thing! That doctor is incompetent and dangerous. I'm praying she didn't say all of that stuff in front of your stepson. Everything you have told us about this child screams that he needs a good, long-term (12 to 18 month) placement in a facility that can confirm his diagnosis, make sure the medications are right, and help him work on his problems. and the rest of you surely need a break before you all collapse. I could smack that doctor for talking to your husband that way. Risperadal was given to my son in a small dose after his first hospitalization (zoloft and risperadal). His diagnosis was Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and ODD and the risperadal was for impulse control. The only issue was that it tended to make him sluggish in the morning, and that affected his school work. This incident with the knife jolted me back to the first time our son was hospitalized at age 9. He was there for seven days, discharged (reluctantly by the therapist, who felt that she didn't get to see the real kid) on a Friday afternoon, and by Sunday night, I was calling 911 to get help to take him back to the psychiatric hospital. He went crazy adn was running around the house, tried to push a second floor window screen out to jump out the window. He went back to the psychiatric hospital that night and stayed for two weeks. When we brought him back to the hospital the social worker on duty at the nurses' station said he wasn't surprised, that he had predicted we would be back. These short stays just don't cut it with disturbed kids. As it turned out, my son had his fifth inpatient hospital stay this past January; the good news is that he is no longer violent toward people or property. [/QUOTE]
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