Hello
my name is Joann i have a 17 year old son named robert who was
diagnosed at 11 with bi polar ,adhd,odd.. We where on a very scary path
he would run away run the streets , have so many rages where he would
hurt his sissters and damage the home, put his head threw doors self
inflict pain on himself with knifes he would black out and not remember
most of it,it took 6 cops to get him off the roof one time, i never
slept becouse he would never sleep it always ended with him going to the
physic hospital every 2 to 3 months, somewhere i lost my sweet brown
haired little boy to this illiness and with many med changes and
counsling and being consistant with being intune to his mood swings and
knowing when it was behaviour or it was the illiness and meds need
changed and evaluated walking on egg shells all the time his moods swing
fast and furious , It took alot of restraint and sleepless nights and
letting him know you still loved him no matter what he did and he could
not get away with bad behaviour and blame it on the illiness all the
time becouse he was getting older and no judge would take his illiness
in to consideration if he broke the law and i treated him no diffrent
then his 3 sissters who where scared to death of him and when i felt a
rage coming on i had a code word for the girls and it signaled them to
go to a safe place to friends house they all knew their safe places and
there was no time to argue they just went and that left me to deal with
robert, robert never put his hands on me but he would hurt his
sissters.. It has been 1 year and 7 months with no hospitalzation we
have been on the same meds and for once i can say peace has been
restored in the home wich i couldn't see happening 4 years ago I thank
god every day that we are here at this place and never want to ever go
back to the old place again...There is hope and light at the end of the
tunnel just be consistant and try to treat your child no different then
the rest of your kids and no matter how hard life seems at times say
to you'r self i love my child to death and this illiness is not going to
take over my child ...
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A mom with a Bi-Polar teen
- springfever1971
on Jan. 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM