Topic : 04/17 Dangerous Kids

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Created on : Thursday, April 13, 2006, 01:12:18 pm
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What happens when a child you’ve loved and raised turns against you? Meet families who are afraid for their lives because their children are angry and incredibly violent. Thirteen-year-old Nick is so out of control, he has used an ax to destroy his home, often chokes his little brother, and has threatened friends and family members with a knife! His aunt, Tonya, fears for the family's safety so much that she calls every morning just to make sure her sister is still alive. Dr. Phil informs Nick's parents, Greg and Trisha, that they have a tough decision to make. Then, Laurie says her 14-year-old daughter, Mariah, hates her so much that she feels Mariah is capable of killing her. They get in knock-down, drag-out fights at least twice a week that don't end until Mariah is physically pulled off her mother by her stepfather. Laurie's husband, Don, is ready to call it quits because he can't deal with his stepdaughter's violent and rebellious behavior. What is behind Mariah’s anger? Talk about the show here.

 

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September 20, 2006, 2:21 pm PDT

Tasha web stie

Dr Phil please don't go this low in people that you place on your show... When you

go onto a web site and post you are warned of what can happen you take your chances

if you don't want to take a chance then don't post on web sites.  WE ARE TOLD THIS
ALL THE TIME......THE WEB CAN BE DEADLY

 
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June 6, 2007, 7:30 pm PDT

Coping with Loss and being single

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Aside from the problems with the daughter, my concern is for the stepfather in the second story.  Dr. Phil was right not to assume what he might need.  No one really understands the grief of losing a child, except for another parent who has lost their child.  Our son died suddently from an aortic aneurysm at the age of 22.  He died in the time I walked out to the car and back into his apartment, just less than 30 minutes after visiting the doctor.  My heart has never hurt like it did that day after his death was confirmed.  We have been lucky enough to have friends recommend some excellent books that talk about the grief.  By far the best is "When there are no words" by Charlie Walton. He is a father who tragically lost sons just a few years younger than your guest's and our son.  I would strongly recommend this book as it is from the viewpoint from someone who understands.  A grief counselor said that often times we wait for things to get back to "normal", but that will never happen.  We need to create our "new normal".  One last comment, from our grief counselor.  She said that normal grief (as if there is such a thing) is about 2 years when it is someone older, and/or someone ill, etc.  When it is a child and is sudden like we and the stepfather have experienced, we cannot expect to "get over it" in a year, or two years, etc..  His wife would benefit from some research, reading, or counseling also so she can try to understand what he is going through.  He needs her now more than ever.  My husband and I often find that when one is having a bad day (which we still do after 18 months), then the other usually is a stronger person on that day.  Luckily we don't both seem to have bad days at the same time.
 I am single and have freinds and groups to talk to but I miss my mother so much
i depend on my aunts too much,I go outside the family
one relative said that she had a dream that sh saw my mother looking over a balcony and she said that she was waiting for me.
Grief is so said and ahrd,I miss her love and caring,life is empty without her. Life will never be normal again.
What do you think of the dream ?
 
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June 25, 2007, 12:25 pm PDT

04/17 Dangerous Kids

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I have lived it thats why I posted....my 13 year old son chased his brother and sister around with a knife ....used a broom to go after them once...I didn't call the Police to do MY JOB....I handled it myself...and when we got to the point were he was not able to be controlled i put him out of the house with some one who could!!!!...His Father who is bigger that he and stronger and he feared him...He is now a very Loving,Smart ,Gifted Man @ 26... I was not going to stand by and watch him abuse his little sister & Brother because I couldn't or he couldn't control himself!!!! You have Get Control of them before they get to and age when Hormones kick in..Thats when he turned...and  i want you to know Beating a kid is not the answer we didn't beat him....However at times I wanted to....we as parents need to really talk and understand why they are doing what they are doing ...my son wanted attention being the oldest he felt the need to be in charge he was very Intelligent...In gifted  programs but lacked Impulse control ...what I am seeing is not uncommon in very Intelligent Kids ...He was confused and angry at the whole world...but didn't seem to have a lot of common sense???...He's still a little like that now ...lol...I just wanted to let you know there were some of us who have been there and are now in great relationships with our adult Children...I hope and Pray you will be able to hang in there and know WE DO CARE...Really care thats why people post....  

Annette...  

god bless you Annatte when i read your post tears came to my eyes you could not had put it any better  i have been living that same life with my 10 yr old son for about 4 or 5 years but the first of last lear alot changed in our lifes the years before i felt life with my son was easier if i numb with pain pills then i got my self clean and the true hell started it was a change in mine and my kids life my son wasn't ready for i was no longer the mom numb on pills anymore i was trying to take back control of our life and he fought it hard from feb to march the police was called on him 13 times for his voilent rages daily  when things got so violent  where i couldn't control him then one day he woke up sweet and loving everything was fine then within one sec my loving baby was gone it was like the devil took over him the blank look on his face his mind going 100 miles per hour he couldn't keep his thoughts straight he was so angry and didn't know what he was angry at he trashed my parents house (so far i have payed out over $2,000.00 ti repair the damages to my parents home and there is still more to fix) knocked over tables throwing anything he could get his hands on cussing hit puching spitting bitting at anyone that came near him my mother is disable do to a back surgery gone wrong he would go after her i had her to lock herself in the bedroom for her safey my other children trying to help me catch him and restrain him intill the police got there when they  got to the house and seen what was going on  they said no more they called the da in our county he said arrest him for domestic violence to watch them handcuff my baby at 9 yrs old and drag him out to there car killed me as a mother i had never felt so much pain to here him cry mommy please don't let them talke me after that he was arrested 3 more times i was aboult to lose my job for having to leave and go to the school all the time over the dumbest stuff they knew my son was on meds for bipolar and ocd and as they did with others kids at there school with mental disorder they pushed and pushed to get them in a nother school and not have to deal with them they like to have that we have perfect kids emige so it got worse with all the stuff going on in school he had more and more rages night terrors he was getting more and more obsessed about the smallest thing and  also that someone was going to harm him or harm me he started see things again he felt worthless he was convenced everone hated him and wanted him dead they child would shower 10 to 12 times a day even get up in the middle of the night to take a shower and try to wash the bad off of him it was living hell and i got the worse of it he blamed me for making him go back to this school everyday his dr and counsler and case mang. at the mental health center was looking for a resedential home for him be for things go to bad and he really harmed himself or us.  so in dec they expelled him for 3 mths this was a heaven sent after about a month to month in a half of weeking home counsling ( he has at the point he didn't leave the house he was even scared his counsler of 4 yrs was out to get him so she came to the house we took it very slow with him) he started feeling safe again sleeping threw the night we started going to support groups he was go aslong as i was there with him and then started a priviate school in march (payed for threw his public school) my mom went everyday with him for a month staring at 1 hour a  day up to the last days of  school for the year doing three hours and a report card with straight a's that he is so proud of and are plans for next year was to send him back to this priviate school but i was informed the begining of the month his public school will no longer pay for it the said he has to come back there to there school because of the cost i told them over my dead body i will never put my son threw that again no other public schools around us has room for open enrollment student so i am in a battle again with the school my son knows nothing about this he thinks everything is ok for the next school year and as always i have those people as you was refuring to that thinks  they know the anwers if i would get him off the meds he wouldn't act like that ( we are slowing backing off his med as needed our goal is no rages in one year we will work on no meds at all) or like his birth father that hasn't seen him in 6 yrs says he wouldn't act that way with me he needs one week with me and no meds i will straighten him out if you would beat his ass a good one he would stop that crap spanking him doesn;t take the disorder away it makes it worse i would love these people that think they have all the answer live one week with this or see a child go threw a rage and try to control it i have went threw hell and back with him i and i pray he keeps on this road he is on now we have had 2 rages in 7 mnths conpared to weekly sometimes daily but that ones he has had was short we have learned new tecnects is group and he may not at first use them but as i restain him i talk camly and that god lord knows that hard to do as your being cussed at being called all kinds of names being spit on right in your face but i do my best i keep talking to him telling him to calm down take deep breaths and take about playing in the yard with his aunts dogs ( i use this same thing when he is seeing things or after night terrors ) and after about 20 mins or so he is calm and he lays there still is can be and then he comes out of it and is my sweet baby again most of the time he doesn't remember what happen he will ask what happen to this or how did that get broke and we say you did it . so please people don't judge us intill you have lived it
 

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December 22, 2007, 9:50 pm PST

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Last week, Dr. Phil did a show on Autism. Autistic chidren are not dangerous or violent by choice. Since they cannot express what is inside their head, they become frustrated. Yes the sickest person in the house controls the house and I know. My 23 year old adult autistic child lives with his parents and 17 year old brother. His 27 year old sister teaches special ed in Hawaii. Dr. Phil, you had parents on this show that need to get out of the why me stage.
Since I was a member of the grow out of its, another show that would benefit
viewers is the one with grown autistic children of how we coped when they were younger and how we are managing the situation now. Noone stays the same age forever chronologically. In the case of my son, he is one age and physically and emotionally he is another. Please heed my post and invite me to be a guest for another perspective on this issue. Thank you. Trudie R. Lehman
 

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