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DD has struggled with her mental health most of her life. She has been in IOP by her own choice as a senior in high school and works with an NP for medication management and two therapists plus the outpatient clinic at her university (where she's doing excellent work academically but struggling socially). She has diagnoses that include mood disorder (probable bipolar), generalized anxiety, ADHD, and OCD. She's autistic and has challenges reading social cues which contributes to her anxiety and depression. She's also dealt with suicidal ideation since her very early teens and is struggling with that mightily right now as well as self-harm and so is living at home where she is more "safe" and in regular contact with 988 as well as her providers.
As parents, DH and I want to do any/everything we can to support her, recognizing that we also are more limited than we were when she was younger (HIPPA, etc.). For now, she is very communicative with us (especially me) but I realize that could change in a heartbeat. Here's where I need help, thoughts, anything: she's looking for and is receptive to IOP or Partial Hospitalization or even residential (although she becomes nearly hysterical at the thought of not having her "things" such as computer and crafts). BUT, she is super resistant to programs that are group-therapy intensive, having had a not-great experience with that at Rogers where she did PHP and IOP when she was in high school. For example, she's spoken to Charlie Mental Health (recommended to her because of Virtual IOP with an idea being she might stay enrolled in some classes while doing IOP) and she's categorically ruled it out because they require 9 hours of group a week. Does anyone have any experience with IOP or Partial Hospitalization programming that's either virtual or available in Colorado (proximate to Denver ideally)? Willing to consider residential as well -- while she'd like to finish the semester at her university, her mental health comes first and we can do whatever it takes to get her where she needs to be... Thanks for bearing with this long post: DCUM has gotten us through some really hard spots before and I'm turning here with hope as well as a really heavy heart. PS I know that DH and I need therapeutic support and family therapy: in the immediate moment, we want to get DD as safe as possible and in a situation where every day doesn't feel absolutely gut-wrenching (either almost non-functional with depression or anxiety or angry at herself and us or wanting to self-harm and then saying "it's not a big deal). |
| I don't have any specific recommendations but want to wish you luck. We have DD with similar profile but she did not have a problem with going to group therapy, although individual was more helpful. |