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Did addiction turn your kid difficult child or was your kid a difficult child who became addict?
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 539999"><p>My son was definitely a difficult child first... the drugs and alcohol at a young age just made things much worse. I think it is possible (but maybe not) that if he hadnt gotten invovled with drugs he would have somehow matured and learned to deal with his inate personality issues. He certainly has some strengths that can help him in the long run. However the drugs and alcohol interrupted the natural course of maturity so now he is a very immature 20 year old with lots of psychiatric issues etc. </p><p></p><p>I agree with you about the focus on addiction, somehow if you just stop using then everything will be ok. What I came to realize is that my son would never be able to stay clean without getting help for his other underlying issues. He also came to this conclusion before me and was pretty fed up with the whole recovery thing, because it wasn't helping him with the issues that make him want to use in the first place.</p><p></p><p>So now he is in treatment for the underlying stuff and I think we are finally getting somewhere... I hope anyways. I think he is still somewhat in denial about his drug addiction but he is working on the other stuff (and is currently sober because he has to be in the program he is in). I think his best chance of staying sober is getting at the other stuff.</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 539999"] My son was definitely a difficult child first... the drugs and alcohol at a young age just made things much worse. I think it is possible (but maybe not) that if he hadnt gotten invovled with drugs he would have somehow matured and learned to deal with his inate personality issues. He certainly has some strengths that can help him in the long run. However the drugs and alcohol interrupted the natural course of maturity so now he is a very immature 20 year old with lots of psychiatric issues etc. I agree with you about the focus on addiction, somehow if you just stop using then everything will be ok. What I came to realize is that my son would never be able to stay clean without getting help for his other underlying issues. He also came to this conclusion before me and was pretty fed up with the whole recovery thing, because it wasn't helping him with the issues that make him want to use in the first place. So now he is in treatment for the underlying stuff and I think we are finally getting somewhere... I hope anyways. I think he is still somewhat in denial about his drug addiction but he is working on the other stuff (and is currently sober because he has to be in the program he is in). I think his best chance of staying sober is getting at the other stuff. TL [/QUOTE]
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