How does one decide where the line is between 'teen behaviour' and an actual mental health issue? My DS16 is extremely hostile and rude to both me and DH pretty much all the time. He says he has decided to behave like this as we will not give in to his demands for later curfews ( he says 2 - 3 am is fair, we do not!! ) We have no positive relationship with him at all, he is increasingly mean and manipulative (EG yesterday I was in a ( calm) conflict with him and his dad walks in, DS16 says to me - 'you are looking more confident now that dad is here' - I find this a v manipulative/ threatening comment from my own son.
My DH and I stand as a united front which is good but DS16 is constantly trying to divide us. I know he smokes weed at the weekends and I wonder if this is making him paranoid, am very worried at his thought processes which are typical teenage stuff but more extreme ?
He is dreading parents evening at school next week already as he says we are so embarrassing ( no we are not, we are boring and ordinary ) - he feels he will be teased about us- I said if his friends are rude about us he should reconsider his friends but he says it's 'everyone '.
He goes out at weekends and appears to have lots of friends although we are not allowed to meet them. - he seemed to function well out of the home.
Any ideas ?
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'Teen behaviour' OR mental health issue?
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Madbess · 20/11/2013 15:11
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