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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also have three kids and one who did multiple ER visits and an in patient hospitalization in 6th grade, plus multiple threats to call police or CPS on us, plus one forced trip to ER in a police car.

But my sympathy for the writer really wanted over the article.  Yes the system sucks and there are insufficient resources and parents have puzzling few rights here.  But the writer complains about even people that are trying to help you.  DBT is all about keeping people out of the in patient hospitalization so if they all recommended hospitalization, that really says something.  I was really irked at her saying “oh the evening programs don’t work for me” — clearly it’s not ideal but how do you turn that down?  I was also somewhat surprised at how little discussion there was of medication she is probably under medicated for the anxiety and maybe OCD as well (I think fixation on mental health can be a form of OCD perseveration).

I also agree with PP that for some of these kids they are less suicidal and more attention seeking.  I think it’s particularly true for high IQ girls who can construct very detailed narratives almost like they are writing a version of the bell jar in which they are the starring character.  The DBT programs are more successful in treating that than some other modalities but it is really challenging.  As our DBT therapist pointed out, if she doesn’t get the attention she is seeking from the words she is expressing, she may move on to actions.  It’s a really hard line to draw.  For my kid, the hospitalization was soooo boring and unpleasant that it at least convinced her that she needed to stop saying things that were going to get her out in the hospital.  Then she was able to switch her focus to other things once she wasn’t caught up in that narrative.  The writer’s daughter is clearly very intelligent with that poetry, so part of the issue may be that she is wildly bored in school and has constructed this alternate high drama life for herself that she is now trapped in without a clear way to break that cycle.  The mental health stuff has become her whole life and as a high IQ kid, she’s knocking it out ofvtje park

I would also love to see more research on how puberty hormones affect anxiety in young teen or teen girls.  I’ve seen so many that are sudden fly struck by crushing anxiety within a year or so of getting their period and who are then significantly better by 8th grade or so.  Now living through perimenopause i think there is insufficient understanding of how female hormones contribute to anxiety.  [/quote]

I think you read this situation correctly. I have a friend whose daughter is behaving in very similar ways, so much that I had to check the author's name to see if it was my friend. [/quote]

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