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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 616121" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>This IS an amazing article. I go back to it whenever I have to. And I have to.</p><p></p><p>To Bri: My heart hurts for your mommy heart. It must be very hard to have a child so mentally ill that he can't take care of himself. Yet...even the severely mentally ill do need to depend on caregivers other than us. Simply put, we can not live forever. </p><p></p><p>There are group homes for the mentally ill where staff is equipped to handle a big, strong man who needs to take medications and may refuse in your care, either because he doesn't understand he is ill or because he just doesn't want to take them. </p><p></p><p>I have a twenty year old son with autism and he wants to move out and will move out next year. He is going to apartments where a caseworker will check on him a few times a week. Your son probably would need more care than just that, but there are places out there for him too. You may never ever have any life at all if he lives with you...and, of course, what will he do when you are gone if nobody else has ever taken care of him? </p><p></p><p>I wish you peace in some difficult decisions you will have to make.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 616121, member: 1550"] This IS an amazing article. I go back to it whenever I have to. And I have to. To Bri: My heart hurts for your mommy heart. It must be very hard to have a child so mentally ill that he can't take care of himself. Yet...even the severely mentally ill do need to depend on caregivers other than us. Simply put, we can not live forever. There are group homes for the mentally ill where staff is equipped to handle a big, strong man who needs to take medications and may refuse in your care, either because he doesn't understand he is ill or because he just doesn't want to take them. I have a twenty year old son with autism and he wants to move out and will move out next year. He is going to apartments where a caseworker will check on him a few times a week. Your son probably would need more care than just that, but there are places out there for him too. You may never ever have any life at all if he lives with you...and, of course, what will he do when you are gone if nobody else has ever taken care of him? I wish you peace in some difficult decisions you will have to make. [/QUOTE]
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