That is the thing nobody warns you about.

For about three weeks my daughter was extremely well-behaved and thanked me for meals and asked permission to go into rooms, and it was the worst three weeks of my life after the week itself.

She did not cry.

She did not ask about her father for eleven days.

She ate what she was given and she went to bed when she was told and she did not once test a single boundary, which is not what a six-year-old is and which Dr.

Fuentes told me, in our first session, was the single most concerning thing in my account.