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Hi this is scared mom. After taking your advice yesterday I went to the Julie Fast websight. She is very helpful and I will be purchasing her books very soon. Tank you so much. Now I was wonder if anybody has any advice on how I can explain to my 15 yr old son on how he is the one who has to be the one who knows himself better than anyone else and he will have this illness forever. Right now he is at the angry stage and feels like I just wanted to not deal with him anymore. Which is so not true. Right now my fellings are so mixed. I am glad he is in treatment so he is safe but what I see is they aren't teaching him about the illness. I see him getting really frustrated and feels the staff is nit-picking at every little thing and he is bottling every thing up. Right now he just wants to isolate and he gets points knocked off for that too. He is so frustrated. He share with me that he doesn't want to come home after treatment. He wants to go to a theraputic foster home because of the arguements we have had before treatment. I need to explain to him that it wasn't just us it was the illnesses he has and we neeed to lean all we can to get better as a family not run from this. Does any body kow of any good information I can share with my boy that he can understand and not get overwhelmed and frustrated. I will do anything to help him.  Thanks Scared mom