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<blockquote data-quote="Stress Bunny" data-source="post: 629357" data-attributes="member: 4855"><p>COM,</p><p></p><p>Your post is so helpful to me. I know you understand because you are going through the same, and I think you are further along the river.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So true. It is devastating to me every day when I realize again and again that I cannot save my son. There is nothing I can do to save him. I can only save myself and my marriage, and hopefully be the kind of parent our younger son needs. </p><p></p><p>This whole experience has been extremely traumatic. When the phone rings in the night, I jolt. I wonder if JT has been in hurt, killed, or arrested. I am sick to my stomach, literally, thinking about the descent JT has taken into a lifestyle of alcohol and prescription drugs, not to mention promiscuity and financial irresponsibility. His mental health issues are glaring more than ever. Though JT has caused a great deal of difficulty over the years, just two years ago, upon his graduation with honors from high school and enrollment in college, I had high hopes for him and his future. All of that has changed, and I just don't know if he is going to make it out of this or not. I feel depressed and worried a lot of the time, and I am extremely preoccupied with trying to help our younger boy grow up to be an honorable person with joy and success in his life. I don't think I have the coping skills to manage going through this again with him.</p><p></p><p>This week, I am calling to arrange for personal counseling services, and I hope that will be another tool I can use to help myself rise above these difficulties.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>COM, you are an inspiration to me. May everything go as well as possible for you tomorrow. I hope you will be most pleasantly surprised someday with good news about your difficult child. He does have choices, and he can still choose his way to a better place. Though, you have brought up the excellent point that you can prepare yourself to have a good life even if he does not. All the best. You deserve it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stress Bunny, post: 629357, member: 4855"] COM, Your post is so helpful to me. I know you understand because you are going through the same, and I think you are further along the river. So true. It is devastating to me every day when I realize again and again that I cannot save my son. There is nothing I can do to save him. I can only save myself and my marriage, and hopefully be the kind of parent our younger son needs. This whole experience has been extremely traumatic. When the phone rings in the night, I jolt. I wonder if JT has been in hurt, killed, or arrested. I am sick to my stomach, literally, thinking about the descent JT has taken into a lifestyle of alcohol and prescription drugs, not to mention promiscuity and financial irresponsibility. His mental health issues are glaring more than ever. Though JT has caused a great deal of difficulty over the years, just two years ago, upon his graduation with honors from high school and enrollment in college, I had high hopes for him and his future. All of that has changed, and I just don't know if he is going to make it out of this or not. I feel depressed and worried a lot of the time, and I am extremely preoccupied with trying to help our younger boy grow up to be an honorable person with joy and success in his life. I don't think I have the coping skills to manage going through this again with him. This week, I am calling to arrange for personal counseling services, and I hope that will be another tool I can use to help myself rise above these difficulties. COM, you are an inspiration to me. May everything go as well as possible for you tomorrow. I hope you will be most pleasantly surprised someday with good news about your difficult child. He does have choices, and he can still choose his way to a better place. Though, you have brought up the excellent point that you can prepare yourself to have a good life even if he does not. All the best. You deserve it. [/QUOTE]
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