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I completely understand where you are. I’m also there except mine is now an adult and there is very little place for parents in that equation. But that’s another story.

What I’ve found is benefits on both sides. One of the worst doctors was very experienced and highly recommended by many. But he had opinions from his years of practice and didn’t listen to any of us - not that my kid was talking much back then. And he didn’t take into consideration what did and did t work in the past. The result was awful - and expensive. We spent every penny we had on life saving treatment after that disaster.

OTOH, newer providers can be more in tune with the latest and greatest of treatments and i haven’t experienced that know it all attitude.

In the end it’s all a crapshoot and depends a lot on how available your kid is for help and how much help you can afford to pay for. But it does feel good to us when we think we’re doing something like researching providers. Like we’re not so helpless and we can make a difference.

I’m sorry you’re going through this and I wish your family well. [/quote]
I hear you and thanks for commiserating. Do you mind sharing about the life saving treatment you mentioned? In DM would work.  Was there somebody you could use as an overall guide to figure out best course of action?

Daughter’s providers for a year we spent a lot of loaned money on pretty much threw up their hands and ditched her.

A major challenge for us is what you mentioned- lack of openness and communication. It’s like she’s trapped in this hole and nobody is able to pull her out as her hands are not stretched out. It’s chicken and egg problem.

About experience, more is not always better, absolutely agree. However 0 is scary. Somewhere around 5 I would trust that they are bringing more than textbook knowledge.

Psych care is subjective and murky to a large degree. We have seen it first hand with so many providers. You can not just sub one for another and expect good results. Especially for a complex and risky case such as my daughter’s. When you fear their survival.

About experienced provider…We ditched our daughters first pediatrician after the first visit. Published author, on best doc list, 3+ decades experience. He mocked my questions and kept examining DD in a pool of pee. Couldn’t bother to clean her up first.[/quote]

We ended up sending our kid to residential treatment - twice. It really did help. But like i said in an earlier post, it’s an ongoing struggle. Periodically suicidal and still gets hospitalized periodically - in fact just finished a month long inpatient, two parts of which were involuntary, and as you know it has to be really bad for insurance to pay for a month. Still medicated and not really a functional adult. But still alive.

I still have a hard time not being really angry at that doctor who didn’t listen. I feel like that was a turning point down a bad path and the doctor could have prevented it. [/quote]

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