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<blockquote data-quote="greenstockings" data-source="post: 638430" data-attributes="member: 17532"><p>Raising my post from the dead.</p><p></p><p>I haven't been here in many months. Combination of difficult child son doing better, working crazy overtime because husband went back to school, and this forum is just so darned BUSY! I could get lost for hours in here if I allowed myself. Ain't nobody got time for that...not me, anyway.</p><p></p><p>difficult child ended up off the Lithium. Turns out he felt amazing just because they took him off the stuff that made him feel like crap. lol</p><p></p><p>He has been on a combo of Lexapro and Ritalin since April or so. He's been seeing a therapist weekly and a psychiatrist every couple of months or so. However, his initial motivation to find work waned seriously. He is not doing anything different than he has been for the past several years....he spends 99% of his time online. He doesn't just game, he researches and is teaching himself higher math. Watches Ted Talks and Youtube videos on current events and science. So it's not like his brain is just a marshmallow. BUT....he lacks any drive to set goals for himself or do anything out in the world. I know we've been enabling him. We're feeling beat up just getting through every day of our own lives. </p><p></p><p>Anyhow, difficult child went to a Halloween party the other night. He smoked some pot earlier in the evening and consumed a bit of alcohol. He knows he shouldn't be doing any of that with his medications. I got a call at 1am from my other son (he's three years younger) telling me that difficult child was trying to leave the party and people were concerned about his alcohol consumption. He wasn't falling-down drunk, but was definitely feeling a good buzz. When they tried to prevent him from leaving, he got out of the car and threatened someone with a 3" long pocketknife. Then he drove practically into a group of people on the way out.</p><p></p><p>His brother didn't actually see this happen, but there were 6-7 reliable people outside who gave the same story. difficult child doesn't deny any of it except for the knife part. He did say that they are "exaggerating" about him driving into the crowd. I told him I don't believe him about the knife. I also told him that he won't be using my car for pleasure anymore, which sucks for him because his weekly visits out to see his brother and their friends is really his only social life. His two best friends started dating each other and now he's the third wheel, plus he is half in love with one of them, anyway.</p><p></p><p>His behavior is frightening because it's so unpredictable. A couple of years ago he went missing for a whole weekend. Out of the blue. Seemed to be doing fine and completely stable, and then melts down and drives off to Maryland and back. Now this thing with the knife. He's never lashed out at other people before. I don't know what to make of it. Could be the chemical cocktail? Could be his mental health is deteriorating? I wrote an email to his therapist yesterday to let her know what's going on.</p><p></p><p>I'm looking into independent living programs around here, but I think that if any exist they are probably privately funded and we are barely making ends meet right now.</p><p></p><p>All I can say is...WTF.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greenstockings, post: 638430, member: 17532"] Raising my post from the dead. I haven't been here in many months. Combination of difficult child son doing better, working crazy overtime because husband went back to school, and this forum is just so darned BUSY! I could get lost for hours in here if I allowed myself. Ain't nobody got time for that...not me, anyway. difficult child ended up off the Lithium. Turns out he felt amazing just because they took him off the stuff that made him feel like crap. lol He has been on a combo of Lexapro and Ritalin since April or so. He's been seeing a therapist weekly and a psychiatrist every couple of months or so. However, his initial motivation to find work waned seriously. He is not doing anything different than he has been for the past several years....he spends 99% of his time online. He doesn't just game, he researches and is teaching himself higher math. Watches Ted Talks and Youtube videos on current events and science. So it's not like his brain is just a marshmallow. BUT....he lacks any drive to set goals for himself or do anything out in the world. I know we've been enabling him. We're feeling beat up just getting through every day of our own lives. Anyhow, difficult child went to a Halloween party the other night. He smoked some pot earlier in the evening and consumed a bit of alcohol. He knows he shouldn't be doing any of that with his medications. I got a call at 1am from my other son (he's three years younger) telling me that difficult child was trying to leave the party and people were concerned about his alcohol consumption. He wasn't falling-down drunk, but was definitely feeling a good buzz. When they tried to prevent him from leaving, he got out of the car and threatened someone with a 3" long pocketknife. Then he drove practically into a group of people on the way out. His brother didn't actually see this happen, but there were 6-7 reliable people outside who gave the same story. difficult child doesn't deny any of it except for the knife part. He did say that they are "exaggerating" about him driving into the crowd. I told him I don't believe him about the knife. I also told him that he won't be using my car for pleasure anymore, which sucks for him because his weekly visits out to see his brother and their friends is really his only social life. His two best friends started dating each other and now he's the third wheel, plus he is half in love with one of them, anyway. His behavior is frightening because it's so unpredictable. A couple of years ago he went missing for a whole weekend. Out of the blue. Seemed to be doing fine and completely stable, and then melts down and drives off to Maryland and back. Now this thing with the knife. He's never lashed out at other people before. I don't know what to make of it. Could be the chemical cocktail? Could be his mental health is deteriorating? I wrote an email to his therapist yesterday to let her know what's going on. I'm looking into independent living programs around here, but I think that if any exist they are probably privately funded and we are barely making ends meet right now. All I can say is...WTF. [/QUOTE]
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