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Joel:
Edited: Wednesday, October 06, 2010

MomInCrisis:
Sometimes she is not safe for herself, she cuts on herself, and does all sorts of dangerous behavior - I'm sure I don't need to spell it out for you folks. If she's cutting, what are they supposed to do. I guess they need some way to give her a time out.

Does this place usual isolation? Physical punishment? Name calling and public humiliation?

This is the most confusing decision I've ever had to make on my own and I don't want an edcuational "consultant" because as far as I can see they are either directly employed by a group of schools or get kick backs.

I'm not going into this naively, but I cannot see any more alternatives.

I just saw your post, Joel. No he did not. Do you know anything about it?

MomInCrisis:
I need to log off now, but I'll be back tomorrow.

Please, if you have any personal experience to share, please let me know.

If you know what questions I should be asking, please let me know.

Thank you so much - you are the experts here.

Oscar:
One of our volunteers wrote with a girl who had been at a wilderness program (AAA) and lived at Copper Canyon School for a period until she ran away. I will PM the link to her blog. Her mother let her live with relatives (The father of the family where she got to was in the news just last weeks. They had sixplets and she helped out with the babies just after running away from CCA.)

If you search the police records in their county you will find reports of runaways and the police being called out there because one of the girls had armed herself with a knife.

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Cutting:

When youth cut themselves it is self-medicating. They don't want to kill themselves. What they want to achieve it the symptom of relief. Basically it is the same effect as if you apply leeches to a patient. Doctors used leeches a lot and the patient got better. Today we know that the reason was that the blood loss made the patients lightheaded. Leeches are still used but more targeted. Your daughter feels better when she cuts but she is fooled like the professionals were in the past.

She needs to her emotional backpack emptied. For reasons unknown to us posters she is carrying stuff around she has picked up and now the blood loss makes her feel that she is dumping some of it through her blood.

What can you do? Get her to some professional who can listen to her. Here comes the hard part: She can talk to maybe 100 professionals and it won't help because she cannot connect with the individuals. She needs to find the one, she can trust in her head.

Sending her away can result in her picking up war stories because a lot of the residential options are built on level system where they have to give something to earn something. If her issues are really hard for her to deal with it will be the war stories from the other residents the therapists will hear and treat on. It would not solve her problems.

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