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My 20 year old son won't move out. HELP!
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 619218" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>That is kind of the key feature in bona fide mental illness. Not so much in mental health problems, but with classic mental illnesses, mainly bipolar (type 1) and schizophrenia. Also dissociative people can function very well, till they don't. There is an onset (and it typically is in young adulthood) and that is when everything changes. At times there may have been earlier signs, at times not. Drugs or alcohol very rarely make such a steep change in a person so quickly. You usually need to drink and drug for years to cause that type of damage to cognitive functions that mental illness can cause in weeks or even days.</p><p></p><p>Social phobias usually develop more slowly, but are also very disabling (and not uncommon, for example around here the most common reason for people under 30 to get 'the disability retirement.') Many of course try to self medicate mental illness with alcohol or drugs or both (benzos with alcohol for example make havoc very quickly and of course also benzos alone, but that takes bit more time.) Often it is easy to mix the two and think drugs or alcohol are the real problem when they are just symptoms. Which is understandable especially with us parents. Who wouldn't hope that their kid only has an addiction and not anything more serious and chronic?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 619218, member: 14557"] That is kind of the key feature in bona fide mental illness. Not so much in mental health problems, but with classic mental illnesses, mainly bipolar (type 1) and schizophrenia. Also dissociative people can function very well, till they don't. There is an onset (and it typically is in young adulthood) and that is when everything changes. At times there may have been earlier signs, at times not. Drugs or alcohol very rarely make such a steep change in a person so quickly. You usually need to drink and drug for years to cause that type of damage to cognitive functions that mental illness can cause in weeks or even days. Social phobias usually develop more slowly, but are also very disabling (and not uncommon, for example around here the most common reason for people under 30 to get 'the disability retirement.') Many of course try to self medicate mental illness with alcohol or drugs or both (benzos with alcohol for example make havoc very quickly and of course also benzos alone, but that takes bit more time.) Often it is easy to mix the two and think drugs or alcohol are the real problem when they are just symptoms. Which is understandable especially with us parents. Who wouldn't hope that their kid only has an addiction and not anything more serious and chronic? [/QUOTE]
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