16 yr old freed from Psych Hospital

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This is my first post to this group. invited me over when she

saw my posts to another group. I am hoping that someone here might be

able to offer us some help.

I am functioning right now on very little sleep after having lived

through a very tramatic event. Last Thursday, my 16 year old son was

forcibly taken, against our wills, and admitted into a psychiatric

hospital. Yes, he has some problems, but he didn't need this one. I

rescued him this past Monday at 10am. He is not the same. He is much

worse now.

I am very, very fortunate that my son was only given one drug while he

was in the hospital. The drug was injected into him and it was

vistaril. I know nothing about this drug and I have not had time to

research it. I was told it was an antihistamine like benedryl and that

it helped calm people down and help them sleep.

During the time my son was in this hospital, I was continually

threatened. I never got a call about how my son was doing. All I got

were calls threatening me if I didn't sign papers that would allow them

to give my son Prozac and Geodon. I think some glitch in the paper work

must have stopped them from being able to override my authority. The

first call was from the doctor who said, " If you don't sign for these

drugs, I will take your son to court for a commitment hearing, refuse to

accept him back here after the hearing, and send him to a state hospital

where he can just rot! " and then the phone was slammed down on me. I

got over calls that said that if I didn't sign the papers, they would

send my son to a state hospital so far away from me that I would never

see him again. I got another call that if I didn't sign these papers,

Child Protective Services would be called and they would give my son

these drugs. Finally I got a call from the doctor who said, " I wouldn't

be surprised if somebody didn't call Child Protective Services, have

them go to your house, knock on your door, and take your son. " The last

call I got from the doctor came right before I picked up my son on

Monday morning. He said, " Your son is doing amazingly well. I don't

know why. He really needs these drugs. If he ever gets in trouble here

again, I will take complete control and I WILL give him these drugs

whether you like it or not. " It's this last call that has caused me

such diuress. My son does have problems and I can't seem to get them

corrected. These threats and the anxiety that have come with them, have

effected my entire family and have made my son much worse.

I need to know if there is something I can try that might help my son,

besides all these very dangerous drugs. I have already tried many

things and so far, nothing seems to have done much good. He's declining

and I can't seem to stop it. I am very careful about his diet and I

think I have found his allergies. We keep him away from all chemicals

like cleaning solutions around the house and I own a Living Air machine,

which seems to help him. He was born at home, breastfed with attachment

style parenting, never given any vaccines or any drugs until this past

weekend, homeschooled, and carefully watched so that he has not had an

opportunity to get into any illegal drugs, smoking, or alcohol. He has

one dental filling and that is not mercury--it's a composite filling.

I've had herbalists, nutritionalists, healers, and even a few

conventional therapists work with him and no one gets results. I've

tried homeopathy for two years and flower essences off and on for

several years with just minimal results. He recently started working

with a psychologist that conciders himself to be one of three experts on

OCD in my state. He says he uses Exposure/Response techniques. I have

to have someone working with my son in case he gets into trouble, but

other than that, I'm not hopeful about this man getting much done.

The only thing I can really say about my son's condition is that his

natural father has the same tendencies, though not quite so bad. During

this past weekend of such extreme stress, I began to understand what my

son was dealing with as I began to feel some of his issues. No one

would even notice them in me as they came on just during this stress and

I didn't act upon them.

If anyone has any ideas of what I might try or what I might do to keep

my son from getting in trouble again, I would very much appreciate

hearing from you. I am very uneasy now that he could be picked up

again. If he was, I'm sure this doctor would get him and take my

custody. Before he realized that he wasn't going to get his way, the

doctor had told me that my son was the worse case he had ever seen, he

had classified him at the highest level there, and that he had assigned

one-on-one with him 24 hours a day. He also said he'd be keeping him at

least 2 weeks and then probably transporting him to some state hospital.

He seemed to have the rest of my son's life all planned out. I just

can't tell you all how terrifying this is especially after you read

about what happens to people that have taken these drugs. I know this

group has people in it that are trying to get off of these. Here we

are, never having taken them, and just wishing to stay that way while

some mad psychiatrist tries to force them on us.

Something I found very strange from the hospital was that I was told

that no one had to take their medications if they didn't want to. My

son said that was posted all over everywhere, however my son said that

when you refused, they put you in seclusion, so most people just went

ahead and took the medicines.

I'll tell you right up front that I'm going to hate to read about you

folks that have been and are on these terrible drugs. It really hurts

me. It hurts me that nothing better was offered you, that you weren't

informed about them (generally) before you took them, and that you now

suffer from their consequences. Then I just shudder when I think that

this was going to be forced on us.

My son is presently VERY agitated. Any suggestions on helping him to

calm down and cope again would be very appreciated. Right now I'm

finding the best thing I can do is to listen and be very quiet.

Merrie