This is a damned if you and damned if you don't. Please don't worry. if yousend him for help, you're the bad mommy....if don't send him for help thne you didn't care enough. Do what is right for you and him. it is not so easy having them put into RTC, so if the psych thinks he needs it, well, enough said. Be secure in your thoughts and feelings. Moms usually know best.
I put alarms on my dd17 windows because she kept going out the windows at night. One person told me that was perfectly normal teenage behavior...,NOT......in my house. We prefer you use the door during normal business hours
. Dd's attorney told me that putting alarms on windows was "too restrictive" Letting her run the streets was "not giving enough supervision" and if I caught her going out the window, grabing her by something was infact "abuse in some form". No matter what you do...it seems sometimes like you are just screwed!
Hang in there. We will listen and support you. We have all been there or we wouldn't be here.
Winnie