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[quote]NP. Curious if you (or any others who have shared here) wished they would have done RTC earlier? How much earlier? How do you know it's time?[/quote]

PP whose son went to RTC.  I've asked myself this question a hundred times.  What I can say is this.  I wish that my son had gotten better sooner.  I also wish that we hadn't had to live through the hell that we lived through for as long as we lived through it.  On the other hand, if my son had been able to skate through and if it had been easy for him, I'm not sure he would have made the progress he made.  Sometimes I think he is doing well now because he hit rock bottom before we sent him and he had to work really hard to graduate from the program.  He was vulnerable enough to benefit.

I think there are only two reasons that would lead me to wish I had had done it sooner.  First is if my son had killed himself or died as a result of his reckless behavior.  Second is if he aged out of juvenile programs and would have had to be treated in adult programs - there are so many less options and as a parent you cannot control whether your child stays.

As for knowing when it is time, for us it was a combination of behavior that put our son and our whole family in danger and no remaining treatment left to try that might have been successful - we had exhausted absolutely everything short of RTC.  [/quote]

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