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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 618072" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hi, there.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion, mental illness without drug abuse is a different animal from drug abuse or mental illness with drug abuse. I have had mental illness all my life and I never abused drugs; never even been drunk. I think I would have fared better early on if my family had been loving and supportive because I desperately wanted help and would have complied with medications and therapy. But I was treated as "bad" and that just made it take longer for me to improve, however I did so because I wanted to live a good life.</p><p></p><p>The key to a mentally ill loved one, in my opinion, would be that the conditions of living at home would be that the person go see the psychiatrist, take the medication, and go for therapy. Even mentally ill people have to take responsibility...in this case they either follow instructions and work very hard (it is not easy to get better when you are differently wired)...or if they refuse to work hard, they will likely just get sicker. Bipolar episodes get worse and worse if the cycles are not stopped or at least slowed down. Each cycle affects the brain.</p><p></p><p>If the mentally ill adult child is dangerous, I would help him find a place to live that may be able to help him. Is he on disability? Ok, so if you find him a place to stay and he won't follow the rules or continue in treatment, you have done all you can and it's now up to him. If he tries hard and can be safe and non-abusive, I would probably allow him to live at home, but he'd have to keep trying to get better. If he is dangerous, well, nobody can risk living with somebody who gets violent.</p><p></p><p>There are lots of people with bipolar and even schizophrenia working and married and living good lives. They may have periodic illness, but they can get back on track.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is that I feel mental illness is way different from drug abuse. But it all boils down to one core issue...the only way either person will get better is because he or she wants to.</p><p></p><p>Hugs and I'm so sorry you are hurting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 618072, member: 1550"] Hi, there. In my opinion, mental illness without drug abuse is a different animal from drug abuse or mental illness with drug abuse. I have had mental illness all my life and I never abused drugs; never even been drunk. I think I would have fared better early on if my family had been loving and supportive because I desperately wanted help and would have complied with medications and therapy. But I was treated as "bad" and that just made it take longer for me to improve, however I did so because I wanted to live a good life. The key to a mentally ill loved one, in my opinion, would be that the conditions of living at home would be that the person go see the psychiatrist, take the medication, and go for therapy. Even mentally ill people have to take responsibility...in this case they either follow instructions and work very hard (it is not easy to get better when you are differently wired)...or if they refuse to work hard, they will likely just get sicker. Bipolar episodes get worse and worse if the cycles are not stopped or at least slowed down. Each cycle affects the brain. If the mentally ill adult child is dangerous, I would help him find a place to live that may be able to help him. Is he on disability? Ok, so if you find him a place to stay and he won't follow the rules or continue in treatment, you have done all you can and it's now up to him. If he tries hard and can be safe and non-abusive, I would probably allow him to live at home, but he'd have to keep trying to get better. If he is dangerous, well, nobody can risk living with somebody who gets violent. There are lots of people with bipolar and even schizophrenia working and married and living good lives. They may have periodic illness, but they can get back on track. The bottom line is that I feel mental illness is way different from drug abuse. But it all boils down to one core issue...the only way either person will get better is because he or she wants to. Hugs and I'm so sorry you are hurting. [/QUOTE]
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