TV Series featuring RAD

So, as some of my friends learn about what we are going through with our DD, they are becoming more aware of RAD stories around them. Many also start to analyze how many people they have personally known in their lives who may have been undiagnosed RAD cases. Anyway, I recently received two e-mails from two different friends--one out of town--about TV shows they caught that talked about RAD. One apparently was a re-run of a Law & Order SVU--perhaps you saw it or it was discussed earlier, but it was new to me. It originally aired Nov. 22, 2006. If you go to the TV Shows site, look for the one titled "Cage." [url=http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit/episodes/season8/8008/]Law & Order: SVU: Find Law & Order: SVU Episode Recaps Online NBC Official Site[/url] The photo representation they give hardly makes the impression that my friend described from watching it, but nonetheless, the public may be a little more educated about the disorder. The other show doesn't call out the diagnosis of RAD but describes with great pain what the adoptive parents of a 10-year old Russian boy can expect from a life with him. I just tried the link again that my friend sent but apparently they removed the first season of the show State of Mind from the Lifetime TV show. I wish that I had captured it somehow because it is what every pre-adoptive parent should see to prepare them for the possibility of adopting a RAD kid. The therapist blatently tells them that this is the kid that wil ruin all your vacations, that will break all the toys you get him, will have you more familiar with the police than you ever wanted, but that the parents involvement could mean the difference between him being charged with breaking and entering at age 14 instead of armed assualt at 16. He said that there was no reason for them to keep this kid in their life--that it would always be messy and may never be loving (or something to that effect). He then said the only return might be one day that you get some satisfaction from knowing that you saved a life. Whether or not either story line rings true to your personal experience, getting the word out about attachment disorder helps bring focus to it and perhaps will bring more resources for families struggling to deal with it.