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Bunny
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I know that some of you here have dealt with this issue. difficult child is on Celexa (20 mg) and the psychiatrist wants him to start Risperdal (.25 mg) and he is refusing to take it. He says that it's the Celexa that is making him behave badly (because we put him on it in the first place because he was behaving well, right?) and that if we just take him off of that he will agree to take the other medication. He only wants to take one pill. I tried to explain to him that is no "one pill" that does everything that he needs. He says that we are singling him out and that easy child doesn't have to take medications and it's not fair. When I point out that easy child does not need medications because easy child behaves differently that difficult child, he turns it into a "you love him more than you love me" issue. I tell him that that is not true, but that his dad and I want to help him.
He admits that he doesn't like the way he tantrums and rages at people, but insists (of course) that it's everyone else's fault that he does that. If easy child would just leave him alone (but difficult child invited easy child to play in his room), if I would just give him what he wants, when he wants it, he would not have to behave that way.
We are going to see if the therapist can talk him down from his stance the next time he goes to see him, but I was wondering what you did if your difficult children refused medications? How did you handle it?
The last time difficult child completely flew off the handle he threatened to beat the **** out of me with a hockey stick. I told husband last night that if he ever moved to hurt me or easy child, that difficult child would have to be removed from the house. It's not fair to the rest of us to have to live in fear of physical danger. All along husband has said that he would never allow me to send difficult child away, but last night I could see that his position on that has changed. I asked the therapist about an Residential Treatment Facility (RTF), but he thinks we're no where near that stage yet.
Who the heck ever thought that these are the things that we would have to deal with as parents. UGH!!
Pam
He admits that he doesn't like the way he tantrums and rages at people, but insists (of course) that it's everyone else's fault that he does that. If easy child would just leave him alone (but difficult child invited easy child to play in his room), if I would just give him what he wants, when he wants it, he would not have to behave that way.
We are going to see if the therapist can talk him down from his stance the next time he goes to see him, but I was wondering what you did if your difficult children refused medications? How did you handle it?
The last time difficult child completely flew off the handle he threatened to beat the **** out of me with a hockey stick. I told husband last night that if he ever moved to hurt me or easy child, that difficult child would have to be removed from the house. It's not fair to the rest of us to have to live in fear of physical danger. All along husband has said that he would never allow me to send difficult child away, but last night I could see that his position on that has changed. I asked the therapist about an Residential Treatment Facility (RTF), but he thinks we're no where near that stage yet.
Who the heck ever thought that these are the things that we would have to deal with as parents. UGH!!
Pam