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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 711314" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Welcome.</p><p></p><p>If an adult child is engaging in behaviors that put at risk herself and her family, she should not be back in the family home (to include: stealing, manipulation, verbal and physical aggression, drug use, lying, etc). I believe this is a bottom line. If she is using illegal drugs and does not see this as problematic, she is undeserving of family financial help or housing in the family home. Psychotherapy does not help much with addiction without concurrent substance abuse treatment. But substance abuse treatment requires buy in by her.</p><p></p><p>The behaviors and attitudes you reference are consistent with addiction. Until the substance dependency issues are dealt with no diagnosis of either personality or acute mental illness can be reliably made.</p><p></p><p>If it were me, I would engage this community to assist in making concrete plans and executing them, for her to leave asap, to drug treatment if she consents, or wherever she wishes to go, as she decides. Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 711314, member: 18958"] Welcome. If an adult child is engaging in behaviors that put at risk herself and her family, she should not be back in the family home (to include: stealing, manipulation, verbal and physical aggression, drug use, lying, etc). I believe this is a bottom line. If she is using illegal drugs and does not see this as problematic, she is undeserving of family financial help or housing in the family home. Psychotherapy does not help much with addiction without concurrent substance abuse treatment. But substance abuse treatment requires buy in by her. The behaviors and attitudes you reference are consistent with addiction. Until the substance dependency issues are dealt with no diagnosis of either personality or acute mental illness can be reliably made. If it were me, I would engage this community to assist in making concrete plans and executing them, for her to leave asap, to drug treatment if she consents, or wherever she wishes to go, as she decides. Take care. [/QUOTE]
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