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Originally Posted by jeanie1234
I am new to this site and not sure if I need advice on doing the right thing for my daughter or not, or if I need to know that I'm not losing my mind. She has been diagnosed with BP, ODD, ADHD and PDD since she was 6 years old. Things have only gotten worse as time has gone by. Now she is a few days away from turning 13. I do not have the energy or the know how to help her anymore. Her father (my X) does not help at all. She receives full services from the behavioral health department thru the county and nothing seems to help.
Now hospitalized for the past 2 1/2 weeks, Dr.'s have changed all of her medications and are currently trying to put her in a Residential Treatment program. I have medical insurance thru the County I live in and they want the hospital to put her in a State Hospital for them to pay for it. I don't agree at all! What can a Residential Treatment Hospital do that a State Hospital cannot? I need some ammunition when the county calls me. I just don't think that a straight jacket will do any good... It'll be worse!
Or if they won't budge, do I just bring her home and try to deal with her disability as best as I can?
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First ask them about what services they plan to get the state hospital to provide.
Use this to also find out what a residential program can do for her?
The residential programs can be different. But lots of the time the main thing they do are change medications and give therapy.
I'm guessing that the county believes the state hospital can do these two things. So one thing you need to do is find some more things that either need
to be used at the state hospital if they make you let her go there.
Or find some things that residential placements do that would be more beneficial for her. I would definately go about calling the residential placements you can find in your state, and asking what they can do to help make a good plan for your daughter so the county will decide to go this way.
Donna