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[quote=Anonymous]DS has ADHD, Tourette’s, pragmatic speech disorder, OCD, and ODD. He was doing pretty well prior to high school. After he entered high school and went through puberty, he became a completely different person.

He used to study hard and care about his grades. We never needed to worry about his academic performance when he was in middle school. Now, he has absolutely zero motivation and often chooses to skip his homework. He complains that he’s not getting paid for doing his homework and lies all the time. He often pretends to be working on school assignments but actually is web surfing. When confronted, he resorts to unreasonable arguments such as why his parents and teachers do not need to study or prepare for exams.

He stopped doing physical activities, playing with his pet, reading books, etc. All these he used to enjoy. Now, he only wants to watch online videos or talking to people online.

He used to be a gentle person. Now he is very argumentative and even aggressive. He tells his father to shut up, insults his brother for no reason, and destroyed multiple properties at home, including his school issued laptop, one iPad, two dry walls. He also started becoming violent toward me. He’s much taller and heavier than me. Today when I asked him to put doctor prescribed acne medication on his face, he kicked me in my stomach. This was the second incident recently. He kicked me when I asked him to do his homework two weeks ago.

My whole family is stressed out by him. His younger brother, who is neurotypical, is often verbally attacked by him and almost never speaks to him.

DS is seeing a psychologist on a weekly basis. He’s also in the long waitlist for evaluation and treatment with KKI and Children’s National. What can we do with a teen like this at home, especially when he becomes violent and out of control? I don’t necessarily want to call the police because they may not be well trained to deal with people with special need. Are there places that admit teens in crisis with short notices? What if he refuses to go? He told us if we dare send him anywhere for treatment, he’ll just run away then come back later. [/quote]

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