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She doesn't want closeness or company and says people around make her feel sick and uncomfortable. Honestly I don't think she cares that she is loved and wanted. She said that us missing her wouldn't matter because she would've been dead so it wouldn't matter to her. Like she has gone completely cold just this evening.[/quote]

I'm sorry.  I've been through that a lot too.  One of the things I did so that I could monitor and not hover was that I figured out where I could best hear everything that is happening in our family room and then rearranged our furniture so that I could sit upstairs and hear what was going on.  There is a balance between monitoring and hovering and you will have to figure that out.  I figured that I would hear if my son was doing anything beyond laying on the couch and watching TV or staring into space.

This stage can go on for a long time - for us it was months and we had many periods of it over three and a half years.  Honestly, the hospitalizations were such a relief.  It is virtually impossible to be present with them all the time, so you have to figure out strategies.  Obviously, ours didn't always work because there were a number of attempts.  But, most happened in school and there was no way to have supervision there and one really bad event happened in front of the entire family in the kitchen.   [/quote]

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