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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Abandonment issues? Depression, anxiety, ADHD and Aspergers?  Wildressness therapy, and moving away as the release plan from wilderness therapy?

There is a lot going on here-- and a lot more coming out each time you write. Why does a girl from a stable home have abandonment issues?  Why would your whole family move as part of a release plan from Wilderness therapy?

At any rate, if you are paying for things like Wilderness therapy, you can afford the following:  a good therapist who works with teenage girls. A good psychiatrist who can look at medication options beyond SSRIs-- because there are a lot of different types of meds for anxiety, depression and ADHD that do not have black box side effects. A good family therapist and/or therapist to help support your parenting challenges. And possibly a good private school that specializes in working with at risk kids.

Running away at 13 is a crisis-- even if she didn't get too far. I presume a crisis is what lead to Wilderness therapy. You really don't want her next crisis to be hurting herself.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but it seems like your child is deeply troubled, and that there is a lot of basic, first line psychiatric care that you are not providing. [/quote]

Agree with this assessment. Sounds like a crazy situation![/quote]

Not OP. Agree this sounds like a terrible situation. However,  I bet OP is doing her very best to find services. There isn't a lot out there for kids in crisis. It's very hard to even get an appointment with a good adolescent psych.  [/quote]

I disagree. It is hard to get services in rural Mississippi. It is hard to get a good psychiatrist or psychologist who will file with insurance-- you have to pay out of pocket and submit for reimbursement youself.  But if you have the money to pay out of pocket and a few free hours to make phone calls, there are definitely good adolescent providers (therapists and psychiatrists) with openings in DMV. . My DC has an excellent psychiatrist and a wonderful therapist (who comes to our house, where DC is more comfortable, BTW), and both are taking new patients.  In fact, I referred a friend recently, who go in to both in a week. You do have to private pay, but both charge less than my insurance's reimbursement rate. I get 80%% reimbursed, since they are out of network. Any good pediatrician knows good mental health providers. In fact, some one posts on the SN section of this board at least once a month and gets several names. So it is very doable. And this kid desperately needs her mom to do it. [/quote]

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