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[quote=Anonymous]10:13 here.

I was going to note here that DD did all sorts of therapy- CBT,  DBT, you name it, we did it.( parents too).
She was sent home a few times and we were told to get her evaluated.
We'd take her to our doctor and they assessed that she didn't qualify for Dominion or any other treatment. 
This kind of puzzled us but eventually we also realized, that DD did agree that she felt going to residential treatment was also feeding her curiosity in a "checking to see if that's where I belong" kind of thing. I know it's bad to say, but we also thought that residential treatment was not what she needed and that the environment was going to not be good for her.  We also one night decided not to call 911 based on what I saw here at DCUM where one parent said "once they take your kid to the ER, you lose all control of their treatment."

So, having never been in residential treatment did "hurt" the likelihood that FCPS was going to do more than they were offering.
They saw her case was "not bad enough"... but I tell ya, the nightly panic attacks and the self-harm felt really bad to the rest of us at home.

Once she got into private school, things were so much better. 
Not having to deal with the IEP and the resistant Special Ed staff was a welcome change for all of us. 
We wished we had taken her out of the cold environment of FCPS sooner- it was as if the school was her poison and we were trying to treat her poison with all the therapy.   Once she got into the right school, she didn't need therapy outside of school. It was like a different kid, and home life got so much better. [/quote]

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