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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Abandonment issues? Depression, anxiety, ADHD and Aspergers?  Wildressness therapy, and moving away as the release plan from wilderness therapy?

There is a lot going on here-- and a lot more coming out each time you write. Why does a girl from a stable home have abandonment issues?  Why would your whole family move as part of a release plan from Wilderness therapy?

At any rate, if you are paying for things like Wilderness therapy, you can afford the following:  a good therapist who works with teenage girls. A good psychiatrist who can look at medication options beyond SSRIs-- because there are a lot of different types of meds for anxiety, depression and ADHD that do not have black box side effects. A good family therapist and/or therapist to help support your parenting challenges. And possibly a good private school that specializes in working with at risk kids.

Running away at 13 is a crisis-- even if she didn't get too far. I presume a crisis is what lead to Wilderness therapy. You really don't want her next crisis to be hurting herself.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but it seems like your child is deeply troubled, and that there is a lot of basic, first line psychiatric care that you are not providing. [/quote]

Agree with this assessment. Sounds like a crazy situation![/quote]

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