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<blockquote data-quote="Carolita2" data-source="post: 671824" data-attributes="member: 19632"><p>Thanks Leafy! Gotta put this out there as the time draws near, 8 days left..we are getting more anxious..Son has threatened not to leave apartment on designated day!</p><p>Thinking this will create a crisis and or legal problem. Maybe mental health professionals will be called in..this might be positive..</p><p>Here's the the thing that I haven't disclosed, only because this saga is 20 years long and I am writing this through tears, recalling all this suffering and really wondering how we have kept are lives so in tact throughout..</p><p>At least 2 times in the past 8 years my son has become delusional..Once at the end of a 3 month stint in rehab for heroin addiction. And once after returning home, going through withdrawal at home, after a 6 week stint of being homeless in Seattle...so both times after getting clean..These stints lasted for a few months and both times he he wound up in mental health facilities for weeks. They diagnosed bi-polar at that time but since he recovered completely and had no symptoms afterwards, he never believed he was bi-polar and that it was all due to coming off heavy prolonged drug use.</p><p>But thinking about this is where my reservations come in about letting go completely. He seems incapable of working, lives in squalor, has irrational outbursts. I know all these behaviors overlap with the symptoms of addiction but has mostly been on an opiate replacement for years which has few side effects..</p><p>So how does this change the picture? Am sabotaging the progress we have made or just damned scared...We still go ahead with our plan of no support, and they leave the apartment in 8 days..but should we be looking more into mental health services, try to share that info with girlfriend who will have to deal with him..should he begin to decompensate like he has in the past with the high stress he will be under going..you know it's somewhat about covering all the bases in my mind, in case something should happen to him..</p><p>This sounds like such a mess when you put it all out here..but reading all of your posts I know we are all in similar extremely difficult situations..Any feedback is welcome.</p><p>I wish I could just have to climb Mt. Everest instead of all this, at this point it looks easier...</p><p>Carolita</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carolita2, post: 671824, member: 19632"] Thanks Leafy! Gotta put this out there as the time draws near, 8 days left..we are getting more anxious..Son has threatened not to leave apartment on designated day! Thinking this will create a crisis and or legal problem. Maybe mental health professionals will be called in..this might be positive.. Here's the the thing that I haven't disclosed, only because this saga is 20 years long and I am writing this through tears, recalling all this suffering and really wondering how we have kept are lives so in tact throughout.. At least 2 times in the past 8 years my son has become delusional..Once at the end of a 3 month stint in rehab for heroin addiction. And once after returning home, going through withdrawal at home, after a 6 week stint of being homeless in Seattle...so both times after getting clean..These stints lasted for a few months and both times he he wound up in mental health facilities for weeks. They diagnosed bi-polar at that time but since he recovered completely and had no symptoms afterwards, he never believed he was bi-polar and that it was all due to coming off heavy prolonged drug use. But thinking about this is where my reservations come in about letting go completely. He seems incapable of working, lives in squalor, has irrational outbursts. I know all these behaviors overlap with the symptoms of addiction but has mostly been on an opiate replacement for years which has few side effects.. So how does this change the picture? Am sabotaging the progress we have made or just damned scared...We still go ahead with our plan of no support, and they leave the apartment in 8 days..but should we be looking more into mental health services, try to share that info with girlfriend who will have to deal with him..should he begin to decompensate like he has in the past with the high stress he will be under going..you know it's somewhat about covering all the bases in my mind, in case something should happen to him.. This sounds like such a mess when you put it all out here..but reading all of your posts I know we are all in similar extremely difficult situations..Any feedback is welcome. I wish I could just have to climb Mt. Everest instead of all this, at this point it looks easier... Carolita [/QUOTE]
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