Re: starting tomorrow.....venting

August 6, 2006

Ellen,

I'm sorry to hear you've had such a tough day. We live

in TX, I'v read several people talking about 's

Hospital and an intensive outpatient program. Where is

it? How does it work?

Darletta

--- musicgirl9395 <musicgirl9395@...> wrote:

> Hi,

> My dd is starting the intensive outpatient program

> at Hospital

> tomorrow. SHe is a mess tonight. She has been more

> nervous lately and

> has had a really hard time with hand washing in

> particular. Tonight

> she is as mean as could possibly be. I've been

> trying to be patient,

> but I am just so mad, my patience has run out. SHe

> pokes, hits, prods

> at me (part of her OCD). She is mean to all of us

> and doesn't listen

> on top of it all. When told to go to her room, she

> doesn't listen.

> She is constantly trying to negotiate things and

> control everything.

> No respect whatsoever. I can't stand it. She is

> always nervous before

> anything new, so this has got to be the worst for

> her. I was

> understanding throughout the day, but the violence

> is intolerable for

> me. She pinches me, etc... and it hurts. She

> doesn't know what to do

> with her anger. I just had to vent. No one else

> understands. The

> good news is that I am hoping will help her.

> Please!!!! Thanks

> for listening. Ellen

>

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August 6, 2006

musicgirl9395 wrote:

>

> Hi,

> My dd is starting the intensive outpatient program at Hospital

> tomorrow. SHe is a mess tonight. She has been more nervous lately and

> has had a really hard time with hand washing in particular. Tonight

> she is as mean as could possibly be. I've been trying to be patient,

> but I am just so mad, my patience has run out. SHe pokes, hits, prods

> at me (part of her OCD). She is mean to all of us and doesn't listen

> on top of it all. When told to go to her room, she doesn't listen.

> She is constantly trying to negotiate things and control everything.

> No respect whatsoever. I can't stand it. She is always nervous before

> anything new, so this has got to be the worst for her. I was

> understanding throughout the day, but the violence is intolerable for

> me. She pinches me, etc... and it hurts. She doesn't know what to do

> with her anger. I just had to vent. No one else understands. The

> good news is that I am hoping will help her. Please!!!! Thanks

> for listening. Ellen

>

> Ellen, I must have missed your posts somewhere. I always thought your

> daughter was doing well. ?? Has something changed recently?

>

> Dina

>

> __

August 7, 2006

Ellen,

I am new to this list but that program sounds very interesting. I can relate

to so much you said, we just had a a horrible episode with our son trying to

get him to go outside when it was cloudy (his biggest fear is storms) and he

went totally crazy on me like I had never seen, kicking, pinching,

screaming, and what really got me was he reached over and pulled a huge

chunk of my hair as hard as he could. His desperation was far greater than

anything at the time. He really didn't care how much he hurt me at the time.

Then after he cooled down he felt terrible about it and apologized.

This last week we were getting ready to start with his psychologist twice a

week to try and work hard on all this before school and he has decided that

he didn't want to go and didn't need to go, ugg. He hasn't yet, but I can

see how your daughter would get so desperate after seeing how strong my son

has felt about not wanting to deal with this. I will hope and pray that

things go well this week and that this Hospital will be able to help

you and her.

DP

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