My niece lives with me and my parents since she was like 4 so she is like my little sister, I will write her name as N. She had a really hard life growing up with a few different traumas. My mom found cuts on N's arm and N told her she had been doing it since December. I found out because N knocked on my door saying she wont be home for awhile because she's going to a psych ward in an ambulance and I was like umm what is happening. I ended up convincing my mom that it might not help her and it might make things worse because of stories I read online b4 (I didn't know if it was a good decision or not) but I told her to sleep with her for the night and in the morning tell her doctor and get a psychologist to help her bc I thought it was the same help she'd get if she went.
Things were okay for a couple days and then N got a call from her dad's new gf randomly saying he left without his phone and she was crying and that made N insanely sad and worried. We calmed her down by the end of the night but a couple days later she told my mom that she had thought about killing herself so my mom forced her to go and took her to the ER anyway and she got a bed at the place recently. She's been in there for 3 or 4 days I think and it seemed good but now when she called my mom today she was saying how she doesn't like it there she just wants to go home she hates it there they just make her do group stuff (which she seeme to like at first) and she doesn't want to and she doesn't want to take the medicine but my moms saying talking isn't enough they aren't going to let you come home unless you do, and then N hung up on her.
Anyways I need help what to think because I'm not a doctor or her parent but shes the only person I care about in the world and I hate how she's hurting inside. It feels weird that my moms just ok with her being there for up to a couple months just cause she needs professional help but I hate just having to sit here on the outside and have her go through this. Theres nothing I can even do I guess but hang out with her when she gets out I just don't want this to end up being a bad thing... Maybe someone with experience with these places can tell me something, like its normal and going to be ok? thanks
tl;dr my niece is depressed/cutting and was crying to come back home after a few days and i am wondering if shes going to get better and not worse
Submitted February 09, 2021 at 11:05AM by fjifjefwef44pog https://ift.tt/2Z2vo68
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