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[quote=Anonymous]Op I'm sorry, we have a similar kid and it's really hard. What has worked for us is medication, and family therapy. Individual therapy wasn't doing what we needed it to, so we added family therapy with a different provider, and it has really helped. There's an aspect of accountability in family therapy that we weren't getting from individual therapy. We also started the family therapy as an intensive effort to get out of crisis mode and were doing it 3x/week. We're now down to once or twice a month. My child was also diagnosed as ASD/Bipolar at 11 - so there is a real effort to address mood with their meds. Currently, they take an anti-depressant, and a mood stabilizer (latuda, low dose). We've really put in a ton of work, and it took a few years, but now at 15 my child is doing MUCH better. We no longer have incidents like the one you describe - although we used to. I hope you can find a treatment plan that works. It's so hard. [/quote]
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