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Another trip to the emergency room ~ difficult child overdosed
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 553684" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Nancy, I never would take offense at anything you said. I understand what you are saying. What keeps holding me back from agreeing with you is that I am convinced that there is a severe mental health component here that complicates everything. She can't work on the mental health component if she is using drugs but she can't stop abusing drugs/alcohol because of the mental illness which makes her turn to drugs to self-medicate. I feel like we are on a merry-go-round. I have been doing more research on Borderline (BPD) and it is so clear that difficult child is borderline.</p><p></p><p>I did talk to the place in Florida that her DBT therapist recommends and it sounds tailor made for difficult child. It is a dual diagnosis treatment center treating both the substance abuse issues and the mental illness. DBT is part of the program so difficult child could continue with that, also. They have a great deal of experience working with people with Borderline (BPD). husband and I have some hard decisions to make. </p><p></p><p>I truly understand what you are all saying. However, my daughter was dead for all practical purposes on Friday. Do you really think I could enjoy my retirement if my daughter died and I knew that I had walked away from an effort to help her because of money? What if she had cancer and no insurance and was told that there was only a 30% to save her if we spent $50,000. Would husband and I hesitate to spend the money?</p><p></p><p>I guess I should clarify that spending this money would not wipe out our retirement savings and we also have a nice pension through teacher retirement. We would not be really jeopardizing our retirement . . . just would not have as big a cushion as we wanted to have.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 553684, member: 1967"] Nancy, I never would take offense at anything you said. I understand what you are saying. What keeps holding me back from agreeing with you is that I am convinced that there is a severe mental health component here that complicates everything. She can't work on the mental health component if she is using drugs but she can't stop abusing drugs/alcohol because of the mental illness which makes her turn to drugs to self-medicate. I feel like we are on a merry-go-round. I have been doing more research on Borderline (BPD) and it is so clear that difficult child is borderline. I did talk to the place in Florida that her DBT therapist recommends and it sounds tailor made for difficult child. It is a dual diagnosis treatment center treating both the substance abuse issues and the mental illness. DBT is part of the program so difficult child could continue with that, also. They have a great deal of experience working with people with Borderline (BPD). husband and I have some hard decisions to make. I truly understand what you are all saying. However, my daughter was dead for all practical purposes on Friday. Do you really think I could enjoy my retirement if my daughter died and I knew that I had walked away from an effort to help her because of money? What if she had cancer and no insurance and was told that there was only a 30% to save her if we spent $50,000. Would husband and I hesitate to spend the money? I guess I should clarify that spending this money would not wipe out our retirement savings and we also have a nice pension through teacher retirement. We would not be really jeopardizing our retirement . . . just would not have as big a cushion as we wanted to have. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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