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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 621453" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>My difficult child threatened suicide constantly, too. The truth is that she may die. I know it is a horrible thing to say but I was just told by an addiction counselor that addiction has a higher rate of death than breast cancer.</p><p></p><p>The thing we have finally come to realize is that we can't stop it. We can't fix it as hard as we try. My difficult child overdosed on our couch while she was living here so providing a place to live and food doesn't help. My husband came home in the nick of time and saved her with chest compressions until the EMT's could get there. At that point, we held an intervention and sent her to a 3 month treatment center.</p><p></p><p>She did well for a while but has relapsed. We finally realized we had done everything we could possibly do and told her that she was on her own now. She has threatened suicide again but we told her that she had almost died in our home so we know it could happen whether she lives with us or on her own. For our sake, we need her to be on her own so we can finally start taking our lives back.</p><p></p><p>Suicide is used by our difficult child's as emotional blackmail and you can't give in. I can't promise you it won't happen but if you give in to it you just have a self-perpetuating cycle.</p><p></p><p>As far as mental health issues, my difficult child is clinically depressed, borderline, and has a severe anxiety disorder. Yet, as my therapist points out, there are others with those conditions who are not addicts and can function. My difficult child and yours have to learn how to do that without our help. We will not be here forever.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 621453, member: 1967"] My difficult child threatened suicide constantly, too. The truth is that she may die. I know it is a horrible thing to say but I was just told by an addiction counselor that addiction has a higher rate of death than breast cancer. The thing we have finally come to realize is that we can't stop it. We can't fix it as hard as we try. My difficult child overdosed on our couch while she was living here so providing a place to live and food doesn't help. My husband came home in the nick of time and saved her with chest compressions until the EMT's could get there. At that point, we held an intervention and sent her to a 3 month treatment center. She did well for a while but has relapsed. We finally realized we had done everything we could possibly do and told her that she was on her own now. She has threatened suicide again but we told her that she had almost died in our home so we know it could happen whether she lives with us or on her own. For our sake, we need her to be on her own so we can finally start taking our lives back. Suicide is used by our difficult child's as emotional blackmail and you can't give in. I can't promise you it won't happen but if you give in to it you just have a self-perpetuating cycle. As far as mental health issues, my difficult child is clinically depressed, borderline, and has a severe anxiety disorder. Yet, as my therapist points out, there are others with those conditions who are not addicts and can function. My difficult child and yours have to learn how to do that without our help. We will not be here forever. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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