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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 333192" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">No, gvc, his surprise was that he was going to kill himself. Thank God I alerted his dad and between him, me and my sister, we were able to keep good tabs on him to get to the next day. We all made him promise to come into the office and he did. He promised me he wouldn't kill himself, though he admitted to thinking of it almost every waking hour. He's in pain and he's been self medicating for a long time. Prior to October 2009, he had been sober for 9 months, and then wham - he fell off the wagon and couldn't find his way back on. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">This morning his Dad (my brother in law/boss) asked me how long I knew he had been abusing drugs and I felt as if he was wondering why I never said anything. But you know when you want to say something but the point is futile? As in, if I had told him, he just would have given my nephew a ration of doo doo but never really actually had believed it or truly helped him? Well, my brother in law and my sister are both like that. If I tell them something they don't want to hear or acknowledge, not only do they shoot the messenger, but they would have shut me out and made it virtually impossible for my nephew to have ONE person that he could confide in. I've been in those shoes - where they literally tell him he's not allowed to have lunch with me or talk with me! Meanwhile, I am the only person nephew would talk with. I'm so glad it's all out in the open. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">These past two weeks have been a harrowing experience. I love him so much (even though on a professional level at work he drove me nuts!). Thanks for the special thoughts and prayers.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 333192, member: 2211"] [SIZE=4][COLOR=darkslateblue]No, gvc, his surprise was that he was going to kill himself. Thank God I alerted his dad and between him, me and my sister, we were able to keep good tabs on him to get to the next day. We all made him promise to come into the office and he did. He promised me he wouldn't kill himself, though he admitted to thinking of it almost every waking hour. He's in pain and he's been self medicating for a long time. Prior to October 2009, he had been sober for 9 months, and then wham - he fell off the wagon and couldn't find his way back on. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=darkslateblue]This morning his Dad (my brother in law/boss) asked me how long I knew he had been abusing drugs and I felt as if he was wondering why I never said anything. But you know when you want to say something but the point is futile? As in, if I had told him, he just would have given my nephew a ration of doo doo but never really actually had believed it or truly helped him? Well, my brother in law and my sister are both like that. If I tell them something they don't want to hear or acknowledge, not only do they shoot the messenger, but they would have shut me out and made it virtually impossible for my nephew to have ONE person that he could confide in. I've been in those shoes - where they literally tell him he's not allowed to have lunch with me or talk with me! Meanwhile, I am the only person nephew would talk with. I'm so glad it's all out in the open. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=darkslateblue]These past two weeks have been a harrowing experience. I love him so much (even though on a professional level at work he drove me nuts!). Thanks for the special thoughts and prayers.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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