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Hi OP, I'm sorry my comment sounded flippant. I just meant that given the shortage of experienced mental health providers, you probably won't be able to find someone who has the experience your daughter deserves and takes insurance, unfortunately. It sounds like that's kind of where you ended up at.

I will say that we didn't find Children's helpful because their psychiatrists are a rotation of psychiatric fellows learning to be psychiatrists.
I'm so sorry your family is going through this. [/quote]
Thanks for understanding. My post was directed towards unhelpful, dismissive and accusatory posts from others. Sorry I put that in reply to you.

We've had one in-patient experience with Children's. They appeared fine, but they were of course focused on short term recovery. You have to deal with providers-in-training at any teaching hospital.

Given what is at stake, the very life of our child, we want to get her the best providers of the right kind, soonest possible. It's just sooooooooo hard to even figure out for sure what kind of provider that would be (e.g. what kind of therapy, after one year of DBT), then to identify the really good ones in that area, then worry about affordability and availability.

Physical illnesses tend to be black and white with definitive tests and exams, so mediocre providers might just work out. With mental health, the quality, suitability of the provider and your child's rapport with them makes all the difference. With rapid influx of newly minted psych providers, especially NPs and therapists of all kinds, it's a scary world out there.

We took out loan for intensive one year long, out patient therapy. Just after they said kid was good to reduce the schedule, is when she attempted. After that, they don't want to touch her at all. She was practically kicked out. We have nobody to guide us, like a primary care provider. Now weighing out patient vs residential care. Figuring out residential care is a whole another story.

Thanks for being kind.[/quote]

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