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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who was placed in in-patient as a fourteen year old (and a couple of times as a young adult), I don't recommend inpatient. Most in-patient programs simply house patients and try to stabilize them to where they can do outpatient treatment. I consider it appropriate for folks who are suicidal or homicidal or about to truly crash and burn their whole life. It sounds like this is not that. And I have not heard good things about DMV area inpatient options.

She needs an excellent therapist, an excellent psychiatrist, and all of the support you can give her. Family support is huge -- the knee jerk reaction to mental health problems is always "therapy!" and "medication!" Those two approaches are critical, but when people think that treatment will "fix it" they become sorely disappointed and frustrated. It won't. It will help. Hopefully a lot. But it doesn't make the problem disappear. Not like an antibiotic for strep throat.

Best of luck. Please take very, very loving care of that DC -- even when it is the most challenging thing in the world. [/quote]

This is good advice, OP. I second it, as a parent who was in your spot three years ago with my then 12yo.

We found a good therapist for her who helped our daughter manage her triggers and compulsiveness better. My child has not needed to be medicated at any point, but I trust that her therapist would have recommended a psychiatrist, etc. if that had been necessary.

FWIW, my kid, now 15, is doing much better. Just more comfortable with who she is in the world, and finding a good outlet on sports. Which is to say: you’re ay a scary place right now, it’s a journey, and it can definitely get better.[/quote]

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