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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should definitely apologize to your friend for being way out of line in second-guessing him about this. It is not your place at all to tell him you object to his family's medical decisions.

Beyond that you are also revealing an irrational bias against psychiatry.  But since the main issue here is you sticking your nose in someone else's business, that your opinion is also substantively wrong is beside the point. [/quote]

Excuse me folks I have been off line for a while and while you are usually very welcoming your response here is not respectful and BS.  I am sorry my initial post was incomprehensible. I am also disabled with this genetic disorder and in chronic pain and on narcotics so perhaps I did not make  myself clear. And yes the fact that our kids all have special needs may have brought us closer together but my husband and I have known the father since we were freshmen in college and I also worked at the same wall street law firm as he did for 5 years and we frequently had lunch together.  They have been our housegests and vice versa.

So let me lay it out for you and give you another chance and see whether you can offer some constructive advice ,As with most marriages where one kid has a severe disabliity, these folks are stressed, and the wife is flipping out because SHE DOES NOT WANT HER CHILD TO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST. Now whether you think I ought to get into the middle of their marriage is a different issue, but both my husband and I have been. ever since they had their twins.  So now that you know that one parent does not want the child (who is diagnosed with ADD. same as me, not ADHD. and it is not severe,) to see a psychiatrist (the wife) maybe you will have some constructive advice to offer,  SHE CALLED ME AND ASKED ME TO CALL HIM  I have asked her to get her husband to call mine on several ocasions about marital problems.  That is the kind of relationship we have with these people, for better or for worse.  So you can help me Or you can just keep bashing me.  Silly me, I thought this forum unlike the others was a relatively safe space.  She called me in tears and said it was absolutely the last straw there have been a lot of them and that she was going to leave him.  I love them both, which is why I called him.  I have known him for over 20 years, same as my husband, and her ever since he met her.  And I don't think further upsetting the apple cart of their marriage and potentially upsetting the child is worth it over what seems to me to be a minor issue.  If he wants to take her to a CBT to develop strategies and coping mechanisms so she does not lose or forget things that is fine.  But I HAVE ADD, and it is not severe, but it was severe enough that I could not get through law school exams without accommodations and had to sue the NY State Bar for accommodations as well.  So that is the story, and this is where I am coming from.

Now please help me.  Or not.  Maybe Ehlers Danlos Syndrome doesn't really count to you all as a real disability for me and my kids.  And that of course would also be nice to know sooner rather than later.  I used to post on this forum a lot when my kids were younger.  Oh well.  I am very disappointed.[/quote]

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