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<blockquote data-quote="WSM" data-source="post: 275191" data-attributes="member: 5169"><p>I did once yell at husband during the fight that sent us to marital counseling: "He's got a personality disorder and you can't rescue him, just like you couldn't rescue your mother from herself or your ex from herself. You can't rescue people from themselves."</p><p> </p><p>husband has compared him to his mother as in "Is that the kind of life you want. Do you want to follow her example."</p><p> </p><p>Nobody that I can imagine has ever called him mentally retarded or mentally challenged, that's just not true. He scores extremely high in math testing and his IQ is 106. Maybe school kids call each other retarded or retard, but he goes to a rougher school than that, and they probably have better perjoratives than retard.</p><p> </p><p>Schizophrenia and psychological and mental illness is just something that is discussed in our house and in his life a lot. He's been seeing social workers, counselors, therapists, CPS workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc...regularly since he was three. He's asked questions about it, he's spied on us while we talked about it between ourselves, it's part of what's wrong with his mom. Who knows what discussions he's had with therapists and all about it. Everyone wants to talk to him about it, that and how does he feel about his mom. He knew words like psychiatrists, positive reinforcement, behavior modification and such at age 7. </p><p> </p><p>No one has ever thought he was bi polar. Depressed, anxious, yes, but never, ever manic. He has a very flat, remote, shut down effect, and when he's engaging, he's polite and friendly and quiet and helpful. He's never acted like he couldn't control himself (except he can't). The only sign that might possibly be manic is he doesn't sleep much--but that's a sign of many, many things.</p><p> </p><p>I don't think anyone's called him psycho, unless its among peers. So I don't know why he wrote it.</p><p> </p><p>I've had a head ache all day and am going to bed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WSM, post: 275191, member: 5169"] I did once yell at husband during the fight that sent us to marital counseling: "He's got a personality disorder and you can't rescue him, just like you couldn't rescue your mother from herself or your ex from herself. You can't rescue people from themselves." husband has compared him to his mother as in "Is that the kind of life you want. Do you want to follow her example." Nobody that I can imagine has ever called him mentally retarded or mentally challenged, that's just not true. He scores extremely high in math testing and his IQ is 106. Maybe school kids call each other retarded or retard, but he goes to a rougher school than that, and they probably have better perjoratives than retard. Schizophrenia and psychological and mental illness is just something that is discussed in our house and in his life a lot. He's been seeing social workers, counselors, therapists, CPS workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc...regularly since he was three. He's asked questions about it, he's spied on us while we talked about it between ourselves, it's part of what's wrong with his mom. Who knows what discussions he's had with therapists and all about it. Everyone wants to talk to him about it, that and how does he feel about his mom. He knew words like psychiatrists, positive reinforcement, behavior modification and such at age 7. No one has ever thought he was bi polar. Depressed, anxious, yes, but never, ever manic. He has a very flat, remote, shut down effect, and when he's engaging, he's polite and friendly and quiet and helpful. He's never acted like he couldn't control himself (except he can't). The only sign that might possibly be manic is he doesn't sleep much--but that's a sign of many, many things. I don't think anyone's called him psycho, unless its among peers. So I don't know why he wrote it. I've had a head ache all day and am going to bed. [/QUOTE]
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