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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If 1X weekly outpatient isn't enough, consider more intensive outpatient therapy - 2 or 3X weekly, with someone who specializes in that kind of work.

People tend to have unrealistic expectations of inpatient treatment, like it's a kind of total makeover.  But when you come out, you're still the same person with the same world you have to deal with.  Inpatient programs know this, and typically insist on extensive followup treatment.[/quote]

Ahhh, mostly right but a little off target.  When you come out, [b]you may have changed [/b]but you are dealing with a world and environment that hasn't changed.  It is hard to maintain your change if you are in an environment that maintains its old patterns of behavior and its old expectations of you and for you.  To this end, OP and family should also be undergoing some sort of familial therapy and/or training to get ready to help the daughter when she leaves the inpatient program.  Think of it as the old Bible moral that you don't put new wine into an old cask.  The family needs to change to help the daughter be successful in her new mode.[/quote]

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