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[quote=Anonymous]Dear Poster @ 21:50: thank you for giving voice to the frustration many of us feel with those less-than-helpful suggestions.  When I posted about my family's decision to send DD to a TBS, I could not believe the numbers of people who would not or could not understand what might have led to that decision (self-harm, risk behavior, suicidal gestures, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations) or that the decision might have been driven by professional advice from reputable therapists and psychiatrists.

Look, I understand that I will probably have to defend this decision for the rest of my life--to my daughter, to my family, and to anyone who hears about it.  But my DD is alive and she graduated high school--and those outcomes were not guaranteed for her, not by a long shot.  I can live with the judgments, along with my own ambivalence about the lapses and mistakes made in my DDs treatment--because my kid is alive.

But for goodness sake, what makes people think that there are oodles of community resources available for families dealing with children with mental health issues?[/quote]

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