Help our girl receive IOP treatment

To know Addison is to love her. Addison has the biggest, kindest heart of anybody I know. She is so loving, kind, accepting and intuitive. Addison also struggles greatly with Anxiety, ADHD and Tourette syndrome. She puts on a brave face and hides it from the world as well as possible, but inside her mind she is waging a war.

Addison has been in traditional therapy on and off for a couple years, and has tried multiple different medications. As is often the case with mental health, it always seems to be one step forward, two steps back. We will get her anxiety a little better, and her tics will intensify. So we switch medicine and the tics improve, but her anxiety and ADHD intensify. It's a constant juggling act of finding what helps without making something else worse.

This past year with the Covid pandemic, and other stressors at home, things really started getting worse. She no longer wanted to go to school or anywhere in public. She believed nobody liked her and she had no friends. She worried everybody thought she was weird, or different and just wished to be "normal". My heart has broken for her over and over. Her self esteem took a huge plunge, and her anxiety took a huge spike.

After a traumatic dog bite recently, things really escalated. She is now exhibiting PTSD symptoms - nightmares, flashbacks, irrational fear of everything. It completely derailed all the work she had done on her anxiety.

We have tried increasing her traditional therapy, but things aren't improving.

Addison ended up having a massive panic attack early in July that we had to take her to the ER for. We tried every single tool and trick we know at home to no avail. She was hyperventilating for over 2 hours before the ER was able to calm her with medication.

This was the final straw for me as a parent where I knew something had to change. And so at this time, I know we need to get Addison into an IOP - Intensive Outpatient Program.

This program meets five days a week for 6-8 weeks or more and treats the anxiety in a much more intense way than traditional therapy.

Of course this program is very expensive, costing approximately $7,000 per month. That means her treatment will be about $14,000 but could go up if the team determines she needs longer than 8 weeks. We do have health insurance that will cover a portion of that cost, but not the whole thing. And because of all the other medical issues we have going on in our home and me having to quit my job, money is very tight. I do not want anything standing in the way of Addison getting the help she needs, so I'm humbling myself enough to reach out for help.

All money raised will go towards the cost of the IOP and continued therapy she may need afterwards.

We appreciate any and all help. Addison has so much love to give, and joy to share. She just needs to learn how to conquer her anxiety once and for all so she can spread her wings and fly.