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[quote=Anonymous]My experience has been a little different than the above cases, but has also been incredibly difficult. My son had a slow descent into crisis starting when he was very young, and has always had major behavior problems at home. Because there were never any issues at school, I was told by everyone that the behavior issues at home were my fault.

We finally (just before the pandemic started) got a therapist who raised the possibility of ASD with us, so we started the process of finding an evaluator and then COVID started and we lost our therapist - because my son refused to engage in telemedicine- and we entered complete and total chaos soon after.

By June 2020 we had the first hospital stay which was awful (for suicidal ideation and unsafe behavior at home). A month later we’re into #2. By the end of hospital stay #2 we had medication that brought the kid back from crisis and he was starting to stabilize.

We got a diagnosis from comprehensive neuropsych testing in September, and the initial meds stopped working by October and we started descending into chaos again.

Hospital stay #3 was in January (I had a miscarriage during it, obviously not my sons fault just bad timing), then hospital stay #4 was in March.

By the time the fourth hospital stay ended we were FINALLY working with a family therapist who was able to really help us start trying to put the pieces back together.

Because of how late my child’s diagnoses came (ASD and Bipolar), I’m still dealing with major burnout - we had almost 12 years of major behavior issues before the diagnosis that I was blamed for - and I’m still struggling with the effects of the crisis. Life is getting better though. My son is stable. We now, for the first time in his life, have had 3+ months of more good days than bad.

Making the decision to put my son in the hospital (each stay was 2 weeks) was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. And because it was during COVID visiting was limited, and I had to do the admissions all alone. My husband waited in the car outside, but he wasn’t able to be there (the 4th time I cried and the nurse was incredibly kind and let him come in with me because I was so frazzled and really needed his support).

The hospital was hard, but also was the best thing because it was so desperately needed, and it unlocked the care my son needs to do well and be successful at home and school. [/quote]

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