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<blockquote data-quote="wisernow" data-source="post: 706419" data-attributes="member: 20373"><p>Thank you Copa. I do have hope but also trust in a larger universe than I to help us find our direction albeit a lonely path at times.</p><p></p><p>Feeling Sad. Our son started to spiral in early adolescence. Not sure if it was the drug use, or the beginnings of schizophrenia. We had him in therapy from age 14 on. He began having violent outbursts in the home and in fact struck both myself and his father. We have a younger daughter we too needed to protect. So after about the 5th police altercation we decided to move him out and thankfully some relatives took him in for about 8 months. Was he violent due to drugs or the mental illness? I don't know but I suspect the drugs drove that more than the mental illness. During that time we got him on social assistance and he lived in welfare housing basically on the premise he continued therapy and school. He was 16. We were still involved in his life but just could not live with him. At 19 he returned home for a short time, got his GED and then a scholarship to attend university.(he is very bright)....but the problems began again and the demon came back. He was arrested for assault shortly after he graduated. We finally were able to get someone to hospitalize him for 90 days because up until then we had no firm diagnosis. The mental health care system in Canada is awful. That is when we got the diagnosis finally of schizophrenia. I was not surprised. Anyhow he was convicted, is on three years probation, has to be compliant . He is in a group home right now an attending college for a trade as he is stable right now. He and I are slowly rebuilding our relationship.(his father and I divorced). He and his sister spend part of the holidays with us and it was bitter sweet...we were playing board games as we used to do on holidays and I saw a glimpse of who he had been from time to time as a sweet young boy. But the reality kicks in soon enough and I know I can never let my guard down . But that doesn't mean we cant build something different or perhaps more poignant given all we have been through together. That is my wish for you....that you keep hope, care for yourself. Hugs to you. It is a hard journey we walk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wisernow, post: 706419, member: 20373"] Thank you Copa. I do have hope but also trust in a larger universe than I to help us find our direction albeit a lonely path at times. Feeling Sad. Our son started to spiral in early adolescence. Not sure if it was the drug use, or the beginnings of schizophrenia. We had him in therapy from age 14 on. He began having violent outbursts in the home and in fact struck both myself and his father. We have a younger daughter we too needed to protect. So after about the 5th police altercation we decided to move him out and thankfully some relatives took him in for about 8 months. Was he violent due to drugs or the mental illness? I don't know but I suspect the drugs drove that more than the mental illness. During that time we got him on social assistance and he lived in welfare housing basically on the premise he continued therapy and school. He was 16. We were still involved in his life but just could not live with him. At 19 he returned home for a short time, got his GED and then a scholarship to attend university.(he is very bright)....but the problems began again and the demon came back. He was arrested for assault shortly after he graduated. We finally were able to get someone to hospitalize him for 90 days because up until then we had no firm diagnosis. The mental health care system in Canada is awful. That is when we got the diagnosis finally of schizophrenia. I was not surprised. Anyhow he was convicted, is on three years probation, has to be compliant . He is in a group home right now an attending college for a trade as he is stable right now. He and I are slowly rebuilding our relationship.(his father and I divorced). He and his sister spend part of the holidays with us and it was bitter sweet...we were playing board games as we used to do on holidays and I saw a glimpse of who he had been from time to time as a sweet young boy. But the reality kicks in soon enough and I know I can never let my guard down . But that doesn't mean we cant build something different or perhaps more poignant given all we have been through together. That is my wish for you....that you keep hope, care for yourself. Hugs to you. It is a hard journey we walk. [/QUOTE]
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