Russian Adopted Child needs more than AP has.....please respond if you can give her help
This is a true account of what an AP is going through right now.
We only need constructive assistance.
She has done all with him
Were not looking for another Jesus Christ,,told me to save him or a Joseph Smith, follower who wants to add to their brood!.
Thank you to Niels and Kerry for posting this.
Lets all put our differences away and help this AP.
He is in Northern CA.
What resources are there, that she may get some help for her son and herself.
She needs no judgement.
Just Help.
I'm afraid I'm only seven months late replying. Tha'ts not just because things were going better with ______ at the time, . This is how I found your email now ... I knew it was during one of the worst months, so I searched April and May and found it. I'm much better, thankfully, due to medication that's finally helping, although the injury is still there.
In any case, I'm writing because I've been completely out of the adoption loop for literally years, and I don't even know whom to contact for help. I moved from ---------- since, so I don't even have my old notes at hand. They must be in some box in the garage somewhere. And now of course I'm in a crisis again with no one to call. (New computer and all.)
Things have gone up and down with my son for the past two years (when he had that summer of continuous psychiatic hospitalizations). But for the most part he was doing ok and I though we may pull through. He was even helpful during the worst times this year, and I almost thought he really cared after all. He didn't.
Things started unraveling over the last few months. He stopped taking his medication for no reason and decided I'm the devil incarnate and keeps lashing out at me. All he does is try to hurt me, both psychologically and now physically. For the second time in two weeks he was taken by force to the psych ward. The first time it happened in school after he threatened to kill himself and me (after getting into a fight with some kids, go figure). Now he started collecting dangerous knives and threatening me. I took away the only knife I could find (a switch-blade) and he started threatening and kicking me. I had to run to a neighbor's place to call 911.
Bottom line is that I'm afraid to live with him but I see no options out there. He's grown and he's stronger than me and refuses to take his meds, which kept his mood stable. I should have disrupted long ago, but I just didn't have the heart for it. Now he's almost 14 and I don't know what will happen after they send him home.
Any suggestions or contacts would be welcome. Thanks a million for reaching out to me after such a long time.