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First visit with difficult child in Residential Treatment Facility (RTF)
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<blockquote data-quote="KFld" data-source="post: 84037" data-attributes="member: 2442"><p>What kind of drug was he using? I don't like how the Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) is saying he should be able to come out of this easy. It's never easy. It's a lifetime commitment and it will not be easy for him once he's back in his usual environment. </p><p></p><p>I'm not saying this to burst your bubble, but so many people kept telling me how age was on my sons side when he first went into rehab a little over 2 years ago. I thought the first time he went and I heard all the right stuff that it was going to be easy and we would be through dealing with the drug problem. Being young is a hard thing. Think about when you were 17. If someone told you you couldn't hang out with your friends and you had to find new ones, what would you do?? My difficult child had such a hard time staying away from his friends and would come out of rehab and go right back to the friends and the drugs. This didn't change until he wanted it to change. You ask when you will know when he's ready?? You will just know. Believe me. It took a year from my sons first rehab stay and about 3 others after that until HE knew what he wanted to do with his life. He checked himself back into the state rehab he had been in a year before and then moved into a soberhouse away from his friends, got a job and followed his program. He was one year clean last Saturday, just moved out of the soberhouse after a year and is now living in an apartment with his new girlfriend, and he's following his program. He still goes to meetings, has a sponsor and knows he cannot stay clean without all of this in his life. </p><p></p><p>Like I said, I'm not saying this to burst your bubble. This is actually a success story I'm telling you, but it was far from easy getting there. </p><p></p><p>Not sure of the extent of your sons drug use either. Mine was a full blown heroin addict by the age of 18. </p><p></p><p>How much longer will he be there?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KFld, post: 84037, member: 2442"] What kind of drug was he using? I don't like how the Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) is saying he should be able to come out of this easy. It's never easy. It's a lifetime commitment and it will not be easy for him once he's back in his usual environment. I'm not saying this to burst your bubble, but so many people kept telling me how age was on my sons side when he first went into rehab a little over 2 years ago. I thought the first time he went and I heard all the right stuff that it was going to be easy and we would be through dealing with the drug problem. Being young is a hard thing. Think about when you were 17. If someone told you you couldn't hang out with your friends and you had to find new ones, what would you do?? My difficult child had such a hard time staying away from his friends and would come out of rehab and go right back to the friends and the drugs. This didn't change until he wanted it to change. You ask when you will know when he's ready?? You will just know. Believe me. It took a year from my sons first rehab stay and about 3 others after that until HE knew what he wanted to do with his life. He checked himself back into the state rehab he had been in a year before and then moved into a soberhouse away from his friends, got a job and followed his program. He was one year clean last Saturday, just moved out of the soberhouse after a year and is now living in an apartment with his new girlfriend, and he's following his program. He still goes to meetings, has a sponsor and knows he cannot stay clean without all of this in his life. Like I said, I'm not saying this to burst your bubble. This is actually a success story I'm telling you, but it was far from easy getting there. Not sure of the extent of your sons drug use either. Mine was a full blown heroin addict by the age of 18. How much longer will he be there? [/QUOTE]
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