singaporemom3
10-28-2004, 08:10 PM
Thank you so much for your book. I am slowly but surely going to finish it one day. It has helped me tremendously in understanding my 14 year old son. He has been a source of headache and heartache since he was about 10.
This year has been especailly trying for my us. And your book has helped keep me going.
This is my long story:
For the last 2+ years, my son has had a crush on a girl in his church that would not go away. He felt that the girl owed him some reaction. We did not know that this was happening until he wrote a letter to the girl apologising to her for wanting to kill her to get her out of his mind. We thought his moodiness was just normal teenage behaviour. This got everyone upset. We do not go to the same church, but I know the youth worker in his church. The youth worker panicked. He called me and called his church-affiliated school principal. He recommended that we see the church counsellor who helped us get in touch with a psychiatrist. Somewhere in the middle he tried to kill himself because everyone in church who knew about it felt that it was his fault, that he brought it on himself. The psych put him on meds for a few weeks when therapy alone did not help. He seems to have calmed down a lot. He is still under the care of this psychiatrist.
What I want to say is this:
Your book has taught me that what stuff comes out of his mouth sometimes is not personal. It's just his "crazy" brain talking. On the other hand, your book gave me the courage to drag him as fast as I could to the psychiatrist when we had to.
I have recommended your book to every parent of a teenager I know. I found it at a bookstore that carries a lot of unusual books. It had one copy. Can you let me know the company that handles your books here in Singapore so that I can know where to direct my friends to get their own? I wouldn't mind bringing it in and selling them myself.
This year has been especailly trying for my us. And your book has helped keep me going.
This is my long story:
For the last 2+ years, my son has had a crush on a girl in his church that would not go away. He felt that the girl owed him some reaction. We did not know that this was happening until he wrote a letter to the girl apologising to her for wanting to kill her to get her out of his mind. We thought his moodiness was just normal teenage behaviour. This got everyone upset. We do not go to the same church, but I know the youth worker in his church. The youth worker panicked. He called me and called his church-affiliated school principal. He recommended that we see the church counsellor who helped us get in touch with a psychiatrist. Somewhere in the middle he tried to kill himself because everyone in church who knew about it felt that it was his fault, that he brought it on himself. The psych put him on meds for a few weeks when therapy alone did not help. He seems to have calmed down a lot. He is still under the care of this psychiatrist.
What I want to say is this:
Your book has taught me that what stuff comes out of his mouth sometimes is not personal. It's just his "crazy" brain talking. On the other hand, your book gave me the courage to drag him as fast as I could to the psychiatrist when we had to.
I have recommended your book to every parent of a teenager I know. I found it at a bookstore that carries a lot of unusual books. It had one copy. Can you let me know the company that handles your books here in Singapore so that I can know where to direct my friends to get their own? I wouldn't mind bringing it in and selling them myself.