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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 691798" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Jacquelina. Welcome. I want to say, too, that you are doing the right thing. We have a mother on the board, Feeling Sad, who allowed her son to stay until he was in his mid 30's. And finally she was forced to get a restraining order because of fears her son would hurt her, her other son, or worse. She has suffered mightily but has come to believe her son would have been better off had she forced him to leave. He would have needed to face the challenges of real life, with a better chance of becoming treatment compliant. His illness, too is paranoid schizophrenia.</p><p></p><p>As others have said there are no good options with this disease. Your primary responsibility like you said is to protect your ill son, from hurting you or his siblings. He would never want to do that, if he were not ill. Protecting you and your family is to protect him. </p><p></p><p>Increasingly there are effective treatments, except that the paranoia, is the very thing that makes them leery to accept it. If he is out in the community he has a far better chance of making the connections, to be open to treatment. In your house, or subsidized by you he will not have this incentive.</p><p></p><p>I am glad you are here. I hope you stay. Keep posting. It helps</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 691798, member: 18958"] Jacquelina. Welcome. I want to say, too, that you are doing the right thing. We have a mother on the board, Feeling Sad, who allowed her son to stay until he was in his mid 30's. And finally she was forced to get a restraining order because of fears her son would hurt her, her other son, or worse. She has suffered mightily but has come to believe her son would have been better off had she forced him to leave. He would have needed to face the challenges of real life, with a better chance of becoming treatment compliant. His illness, too is paranoid schizophrenia. As others have said there are no good options with this disease. Your primary responsibility like you said is to protect your ill son, from hurting you or his siblings. He would never want to do that, if he were not ill. Protecting you and your family is to protect him. Increasingly there are effective treatments, except that the paranoia, is the very thing that makes them leery to accept it. If he is out in the community he has a far better chance of making the connections, to be open to treatment. In your house, or subsidized by you he will not have this incentive. I am glad you are here. I hope you stay. Keep posting. It helps [/QUOTE]
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