Help! I can’t find your forum!
Hello,
I’m an adoptive mother to a child with attachment disorders and I’ve happened upon your site while searching the web. I found it very informative and encouraging and would like to join your forum. However, each link I clicked to go there came up with an error. Could you send me a direct link through email and I can see if I have any better luck?
Much appreciated!
Jamie
Jamie, unless Delphiforums.com was having a problem the day you tried it, I’m not sure what the problem might have been. As far as I know, it’s been up on a pretty steady basis for the past several years. If you are referring to a link to the forum from the RadKid.Org site, please let me know which ones didn’t work so that I can make sure that I have them set up properly.
Although my wife and I established the RadKid forum on Delphiforums.com, I am no longer the host of it. During a period of upheaval at my house, I was absent from the forum for quite some time, in which time its hosting was given to my co-host, who is certainly a capable person. I have since returned to the forum and still serve as a co-host there, but it’s not really “my” forum anymore. In reality, it’s better now because the responsibility for it is spread out between a number of amazing people, mostly experienced mothers of children with reactive attachment disorder.
Meanwhile, this link should work for you.
– ken
Tags: support forum
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I am new to the site and would like to introduce myself and family a little. I have been reading throught his site and am hoping to find some support as I am a parent to two RAD teens who are also diagnosed with bipolar disorder. After many interventions and continued therapy they are both progressing ,but still have struggles with the additional complexities of teen struggles. A couple of years ago they were running, out on the street and living all the worst scenarios. My husband and I have participated in intensive attachment therapy and continue to learn and grow and would welcome comments from those with RAD teens, your struggles and successes. Thanks dreamer3040
June 4th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Julia,
Having taken our nephew in at the age of twelve, I can certainly emphasize with the special problems related to reactive attachment disorder on top of the usual stresses of teenage life. You don’t want to attribute everything to reactive attachment disorder, knowing that the normal condition of a teenager might be thought of as disordered in many ways. We found that our nephew exhibited most of the usual things that are seen with teenagers, only they were greatly exaggerated and the coping mechanisms were all but absent.
I would like to invite you to join an online forum that my wife and I created several years ago. The forum is hosted by someone else now, but I still participate as a co-host and have the greatest respect for what they have to offer.
The forum is hosted by Delphiforums, and it can be reached through this link. You may remain anonymous on the site, as any information requested upon signing up for a member account is not passed on to the forum host. I think you’ll find it to be helpful, if only for the opportunity to vent to people who understand what you are going through.
– ken