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Does he not care or is it a cry for help?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 688327" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>I am here to say welcome and to offer my support. I have nothing useful to add and agree with the others.I think it is both. He is in his own world. He could care less what you think. He is out of control, even of himself. Nothing is working for him.</p><p> I think this is brilliant. Unlike those of us with older kids you have leverage: probation and school. School has some responsibility in this, too. With mental illness diagnoses your son can qualify for an IEP. In that way his school setting can be changed, possibly, to one with a treatment component.</p><p></p><p>I would take any action I could, even to shake him up. Change schools to get him away from peers, etc. Take away easy access to what gets him into trouble. Some parents have taken doors off rooms, put in video cameras, etc. Anything you can do to take away easy access to stuff and people he uses to get into trouble.</p><p></p><p>The actress Angela Lansbury (TV, broadway) had two kids who got into drugs. She packed them up with the family and the dog and moved everybody to Ireland. That was maybe 40 years ago. That nipped that in the bud (no pun intended.)</p><p></p><p>I love this:</p><p></p><p>And I love this:</p><p>My son has the same constellation of issues with POT. He is now 27. We have medical marijuana laws here. Great.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 688327, member: 18958"] Hi I am here to say welcome and to offer my support. I have nothing useful to add and agree with the others.I think it is both. He is in his own world. He could care less what you think. He is out of control, even of himself. Nothing is working for him. I think this is brilliant. Unlike those of us with older kids you have leverage: probation and school. School has some responsibility in this, too. With mental illness diagnoses your son can qualify for an IEP. In that way his school setting can be changed, possibly, to one with a treatment component. I would take any action I could, even to shake him up. Change schools to get him away from peers, etc. Take away easy access to what gets him into trouble. Some parents have taken doors off rooms, put in video cameras, etc. Anything you can do to take away easy access to stuff and people he uses to get into trouble. The actress Angela Lansbury (TV, broadway) had two kids who got into drugs. She packed them up with the family and the dog and moved everybody to Ireland. That was maybe 40 years ago. That nipped that in the bud (no pun intended.) I love this: And I love this: My son has the same constellation of issues with POT. He is now 27. We have medical marijuana laws here. Great. [/QUOTE]
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