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A Dangerous Son Page #5
- TV-14
- Year:
- 2018
- 90 min
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he was 12 years old.
A lot of these medications
aren't tested in children,
many of 'em are off-label--
sometimes they're like
for blood pressure
or something--
and that's a frightening
experience for a parent.
At this point,
a lot of the time,
someone guesses
at a diagnosis,
medicates for it,
"Oh, the medication
didn't work,
therefore you probably
don't have that syndrome.
Let's try another one."
And it feels like
the child is a dartboard,
and you're sitting there
thinking, "We'll throw this.
We'll throw that.
Oh, look, that one
seems to help. Okay,
I guess he must have this,"
and the diagnosis is the result
of a medication response
rather than the basis
for the assignment
of a medication.
Hey, Ethan.
Hey, why don't
you sit down?
We want to tell you something.
I wanna go.
I wanna leave.
Wait, wait, we want to talk--
No, I need to talk
to you about something
with them.
Sit down.
I want to use my Wii.
Okay, I'll tell you what.
You can, but first they're
gonna leave,
and we need to talk to you
about something important,
so could you
just sit down?
I wanna go
on a ride.
Okay. Listen. Listen.
Listen, first let me
talk to you.
your new counselors.
Okay? And then--
this is the thing, honey--
you're gonna
start seeing them
next Monday, but...
they are actually
in Lakewood,
which is past Tacoma, okay?
And you're gonna go
and stay with them
for a while.
Stay with them?
Like, live with them.
They're gonna try
and help you...
control those anger
problems you have...
'cause you always
say you want to try
and control yourself,
and you don't know how,
and they're gonna
try to help you.
So you're gonna
stay there for a while.
'Cause they're
just helping.
They are,
so you're gonna
live with them
for a couple months.
All right. Wait.
No. It's not a hospital.
It's a house.
It's a house.
Man:
It's a nice house.
Woman:
It's a very nice house.
So do you think
you are gonna be...
a big boy
and you're gonna
let them help you?
I'm gonna take you
to this place, okay?
What?
To their place.
Next Monday.
Next Monday.
You're gonna
start living there
for a little while.
Until three months?
Or six.
We don't know.
Is it days?
It depends on you.
No, months.
Like 90 days
to 180 days.
All right.
Yeah, I don't think
but at least
Woman:
That's good.
Mitch's dog...
is always in trouble.
So, this poor thing is
always staying at Red Hill.
This is the facility
that Mitch's dog is in.
He has all these reports...
for all the people
that come in here.
He processes
his experiences,
so, um, and how he does that
is he role-plays.
So he's made this
into a residential facility,
and the dog, you know,
needs to fill this out--
name, gender, age,
and why he's here.
And then sometimes
they go to juvenile home,
sometimes they're going
to Children's Hospital,
things like that.
So he role-plays
in order to process,
I think.
(sighs)
Hug?
Here hug.
(indistinct chatter)
(Ethan shouting)
No! No!
No!
Oh God.
Ethan, knock it off.
Ethan! Oh my God!
Stop!
(mutters)
Sh*t.
You b*tch!
Knock it off now!
You want me to turn around
and pull your hair?
You make me angry!
Stacy:
Ethan.We're on the way to the place
you're going to be staying,
you're not gonna see me
for a long time,
and you want to act
like this in the car?
I don't want to see you.
You don't want to see me?
Okay. Well, guess what.
You're not gonna get to, Ethan.
Why don't you think about that?
Look, Ethan,
that's the house
you're gonna stay at.
Stacy:
Okay.(phone chimes)
Hey, Ken.
This is Ethan.
Just trying to call you,
'cause today, I'm not being
with Mom anymore,
and I'm not allowed
to bring my electronics.
I-- I have to leave,
and I'm not gonna be with Mom
anymore, maybe. Right.
I live so--
I live super far away,
with someone else,
and that's all I wanted
to say. So, bye, Ken.
I'm gonna miss you.
It's my turn.
(kissing) Mmm.
I love you and I'm
gonna miss you so much.
(Ethan cries) Me too.
You're my baby boy.
(Stacy coughs)
(sniffles)
(rock music plays
on radio)
Hey, William.
What?
Remember what I said.
This is temporary.
Yeah.
I'm gonna find
a place for us, okay?
And...
Okay.
You're gonna be fine.
You've done this before.
Where is it?
It's right here.
That it?
Mm-hmm.
Look at me.
It's gonna be fine.
Okay.
Okay?
Gonna get out
and walk around a little?
Can you come with me?
Of course.
Okay.
All right.
This isn't
permanent, is it?
No.
No. Not at all.
You are grieving,
you know, not your child
so much as the dream
associated with the child.
Definite feelings of guilt,
and then you play it
over and over again,
and then you think about,
"Okay, well, should we have
not have gotten divorced?
"Should we have worked
harder on our marriage?
Did that, you know,
make it harder on him?"
along the way where it was like,
"If I had kept him
on a steady diet,
"more holistic
from the beginning,
"could this have been...
changed or the outcome
could have been different?"
So...
As a parent,
you will be blamed.
You'll be blamed
for your child's struggles.
You'll be told,
"Oh, you should just
take parenting classes.
That will fix it."
For decades, we claimed
that children
developed autism
because they had
cold refrigerator mothers
who are somehow
pushing them into autism,
that they had schizophrenia
because they had parents
who nurtured
an unconscious wish
that they not exist.
If we go back
a few hundred years,
we insisted that
parents caused dwarfism
and other deformities
which were a manifestation
of the mother's unexpressed
lascivious longings.
And we've dropped
the narrative of blame
in all of those situations,
when their children
are deeply troubled,
and especially
if they're deeply
troubled in ways
that involve criminal
or destructive behavior.
Liza:
If your child has cancer,
the whole community
rallies around you,
but mental illness
is not a casserole disease.
Nobody brings you a casserole
when your child's in the acute
care psychiatric hospital.
Creigh:
There wasa time when you spoke
only in hushed terms
of people with serious
physical illnesses like cancer.
"She's got cancer, you know?"
And... today,
you know, anywhere you go,
somebody's having a fundraiser
for somebody with cancer,
you know, we're having rallies.
very, very in inspiring,
and people give
great testimonials
about the way they fought
battles and overcome
these serious
physical ailments,
whether its cancer
or diabetes
or-- or any sort
of disease.
We need-- we need
to do the same thing
with mental illness.
Cora:
I would like to see him
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