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Jun. 4th, 2025 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alicevangeline Describing one of my kids as 'spacey' and the other as 'spicy' and I am enjoying how that works out.
Here's another thing and I hope it's not me borrowing troulbe but I've been thinking about getting girlkid into a residential program for her various issues. and rather than thinking about it I called up the place - Newport Academy - 6-8 week residential treatment center.
Stay tuned!
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Ok.
on the one hand, 6-8 weeks of a residential treatment for anxiety/ocd/disordered eating/depression issues, mostly covered by insurance except for $1250.
However; a little bit more 'what could go wrong' critical thinking led me to a reddit rabbit hole about the Troubled Teen Industry which specifically calls out this place among other places. I'm trying to continue to use critical thinking about the whole thing but one post i saw that is probably the right answer - i screenshotted it, and paraphrasing here:
"time. what she's going through is developmental, and she will grow out of a lot of what's going on. she needs to be parented through this. it will be the hardest thing you've ever done. don't send her away. she needs you and adding parental rejection/abandonment to her traumas will make everything worse. preserving a relationship with her, guiding her with love, modeling proper coping strategies, all of that is going to pay off, but you have to be ready to wait for that payoff. it's coming. maybe not for a long time, but it will."
dangit
Here's another thing and I hope it's not me borrowing troulbe but I've been thinking about getting girlkid into a residential program for her various issues. and rather than thinking about it I called up the place - Newport Academy - 6-8 week residential treatment center.
Stay tuned!
----
Ok.
on the one hand, 6-8 weeks of a residential treatment for anxiety/ocd/disordered eating/depression issues, mostly covered by insurance except for $1250.
However; a little bit more 'what could go wrong' critical thinking led me to a reddit rabbit hole about the Troubled Teen Industry which specifically calls out this place among other places. I'm trying to continue to use critical thinking about the whole thing but one post i saw that is probably the right answer - i screenshotted it, and paraphrasing here:
"time. what she's going through is developmental, and she will grow out of a lot of what's going on. she needs to be parented through this. it will be the hardest thing you've ever done. don't send her away. she needs you and adding parental rejection/abandonment to her traumas will make everything worse. preserving a relationship with her, guiding her with love, modeling proper coping strategies, all of that is going to pay off, but you have to be ready to wait for that payoff. it's coming. maybe not for a long time, but it will."
dangit