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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of a similar teen.

YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Your child is out of control right now, is self-harming and expressing suicidal ideation. He needs to be hospitalized.

This happened to my son last fall. I don't want to downplay hospitalization, I was a wreck when it happened, but it was totally fine in the end. My DS was in for a total of five days, during which time he had his meds adjusted and we had the breathing space to set the household up for his return, including making it a safer place(locking up knives etc.) and finding an outpatient program for him to enter when he got out. We spoke twice every day. He was not traumatized in the slightest. If anything he was a it bored but he actually made friends.

You need help.

Do not feel guilty about this. They are not going to keep him for months in some kind of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest situation. It's just not like that. Where is he going to be admitted?

I have heard good things about Sheppard Pratt. My son went to Brook Lane and I feel that was the beginning of the way forward for us so I don't regret it at all.

GL and stay strong.[/quote

OP here.  Your son was only admitted for 5 days?  Was it residential or PHP? The program he is going to is 45-60 days.  Is that too long?  [/quote]

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