Telos (Orem, UT)

My son spent 11 months at Telos in Orem, Utah and it was the best thing we've ever done to help him.  

Hi - My 17 year old son is at a residential treatment center (Telos in Orem, Utah) and while sending him to wilderness and then to the RTC was the hardest decision of my life, it has turned out to be the best decision of my life too.  My son has social anxiety, anger, ADHD.  All issues that made it so we didn't function well as a family, and he had trouble functioning socially.    We had numerous years of therapy (mostly for him), but I think he wasn't mature enough for much of the therapy, and in the end he needed much more than a weekly therapy session.  We only sent him to wilderness to get him off the computer as he was isolating more and more into his video games, but the video game playing was just a coping mechanism to help him get through life since he was having trouble functioning in a healthy way and having trouble making friends.  Plus, he needed to have intervention when his behaviors, emotions, etc. were in the heat of the moment, not just meet with his therapist and tell her about it and his father and I did not have the skill set to help him with his challenges.    After 6 weeks of wilderness (which he grudgingly went to), he admitted that it was helpful.  In the end, so helpful, that he was the one who hugged me and comforted me, telling me it would be ok, when his father and I dropped him at his RTC.  He is still there, and I visit often.  I see the growth he is making every week, and he himself it the first to say, that this investment of a year of his life will help him for the rest of his life.  I am happy to share more with you.