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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 111694" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hi again. I have no doubt your son has psychiatric issues. My daughter probably has a mood disorder and self-medicated. However, I'm saying HE WON'T HELP HIMSELF and get help for the primary issue (a psyschiatric problem PLUS drug use) until he chooses to do so. There is still nothing you can do. I have bipolar II and tried pot and it does more harm than good in the long run. And I still say he may be using more drugs. Until he decides to comply with treatment and that means therapeutic medications without the other stuff, he won't improve. And in my opinion you still need to use tough love. He's almost a man. If he gets into trouble again, nobody will care if he has a mood disorder--he will be tried and punished as an adult. He needs to decide to get the proper help and to listen to his doctors. My daughter's story ended positive, BUT in no way did we bail her out of trouble. I don't think she'd have decided to change if we had pampered her. The more we did, the more she spiraled out of control. She is quite responsible now, but she was in another place than your son. Even on drugs she had a job, graduated high school, and even went to tech school for Beauty School and got straight A's, so she had some ambition even through the drug haze. All kids are different. At 17, your son needs to decide to get help. He probably has a dual diagnosis--drug addiction and a psychiatric problem. That can be tricky and he himself has to decide to do the hard work it takes to get better. (((Big hugs))) This is VERY hard. I still shudder thinking that my daughter could have died...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 111694, member: 1550"] Hi again. I have no doubt your son has psychiatric issues. My daughter probably has a mood disorder and self-medicated. However, I'm saying HE WON'T HELP HIMSELF and get help for the primary issue (a psyschiatric problem PLUS drug use) until he chooses to do so. There is still nothing you can do. I have bipolar II and tried pot and it does more harm than good in the long run. And I still say he may be using more drugs. Until he decides to comply with treatment and that means therapeutic medications without the other stuff, he won't improve. And in my opinion you still need to use tough love. He's almost a man. If he gets into trouble again, nobody will care if he has a mood disorder--he will be tried and punished as an adult. He needs to decide to get the proper help and to listen to his doctors. My daughter's story ended positive, BUT in no way did we bail her out of trouble. I don't think she'd have decided to change if we had pampered her. The more we did, the more she spiraled out of control. She is quite responsible now, but she was in another place than your son. Even on drugs she had a job, graduated high school, and even went to tech school for Beauty School and got straight A's, so she had some ambition even through the drug haze. All kids are different. At 17, your son needs to decide to get help. He probably has a dual diagnosis--drug addiction and a psychiatric problem. That can be tricky and he himself has to decide to do the hard work it takes to get better. (((Big hugs))) This is VERY hard. I still shudder thinking that my daughter could have died... [/QUOTE]
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