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<blockquote data-quote="blackgnat" data-source="post: 664607" data-attributes="member: 13561"><p>Thank you! I have calmed down somewhat and feel that you're right COM, the choices HE has made have only led to self destruction and so it's time for a different approach. The suicide threat if we continued with IC was just irrational-let's face it, he is slowly committing suicide on the streets with his lifestyle and the people he's associating with. He's not exactly in the right frame of mind to make a decision like this.</p><p></p><p>Exgf's ma emailed throughout the evening-apparently he called her back and apologized for his outburst of the phone call. (The staff director had calmed him down by talking to him.) He told her it was the shock of hearing what we wanted to happen that caused his reaction -someone else in the facility has parents that are also trying to do IC and he fears that he'll be waiting there for weeks before a bed is available somewhere. He said that he didn't mind waiting, but he wanted to do it living in his dad's bus, where he could have coffee and cigarettes. She said that he'd tried that before and look where it had got him. He is allowed to have nicotine gum, so she got some for him-I think that's a big factor for the mentally ill-there's some scientific connection between the calming properties of nicotine and the brain's chemistry. I read once that for schizophrenics, the nicotine somehow filters out the tics and noises they hear that trigger episodes, or something like that.</p><p></p><p>Later he called her and said that he'd just been to an AA meeting that had changed his perspective (the cynic in me marvels at this) and he told her if she wanted to go ahead with the IC , he'd " go wherever". But that he would also work with her on the places he was supposed to have applied to, but hasn't.</p><p></p><p>So in all, I think this course of action we've proposed is galvanizing HIM into action.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the support. Baby steps...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blackgnat, post: 664607, member: 13561"] Thank you! I have calmed down somewhat and feel that you're right COM, the choices HE has made have only led to self destruction and so it's time for a different approach. The suicide threat if we continued with IC was just irrational-let's face it, he is slowly committing suicide on the streets with his lifestyle and the people he's associating with. He's not exactly in the right frame of mind to make a decision like this. Exgf's ma emailed throughout the evening-apparently he called her back and apologized for his outburst of the phone call. (The staff director had calmed him down by talking to him.) He told her it was the shock of hearing what we wanted to happen that caused his reaction -someone else in the facility has parents that are also trying to do IC and he fears that he'll be waiting there for weeks before a bed is available somewhere. He said that he didn't mind waiting, but he wanted to do it living in his dad's bus, where he could have coffee and cigarettes. She said that he'd tried that before and look where it had got him. He is allowed to have nicotine gum, so she got some for him-I think that's a big factor for the mentally ill-there's some scientific connection between the calming properties of nicotine and the brain's chemistry. I read once that for schizophrenics, the nicotine somehow filters out the tics and noises they hear that trigger episodes, or something like that. Later he called her and said that he'd just been to an AA meeting that had changed his perspective (the cynic in me marvels at this) and he told her if she wanted to go ahead with the IC , he'd " go wherever". But that he would also work with her on the places he was supposed to have applied to, but hasn't. So in all, I think this course of action we've proposed is galvanizing HIM into action. Thanks for the support. Baby steps... [/QUOTE]
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