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heartbroken over son's worsening state
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 689158" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hi. I'm so sad for your son and sorry he won't accept help. Sounds like you get along well with him. Has he shared why he won't accept help? He sounds like a kind and sweet young man.</p><p></p><p>About yourself.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't help your son one bit to stay depressed about him and it is harmful to you and probably saddens other people who love you. Do YOU get treatment for your depression? Therapy at least to teach you how to better cope with your feelings about your son? If you go for help and get better, this would be an example for your son. If you don't get help, you are doing what he is doing and neither of you are moving ahead.</p><p>Situational depression, caused by trauma such as your sons mental illness, can turn into clinical depression after you get used to feeling depressed...you stay depressed. It helps neither of you. I am concerned about you as I know the awful hopeless feeling of the black hole of depression that is so bad you can't work. I have been there. I am sorry you also know this type of depression.</p><p>I am angry that the most severely mentally ill often end up in jail. I'm sorry. It is so unjust.</p><p>I hope you stay. We care very much about both of you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 689158, member: 1550"] Hi. I'm so sad for your son and sorry he won't accept help. Sounds like you get along well with him. Has he shared why he won't accept help? He sounds like a kind and sweet young man. About yourself. It doesn't help your son one bit to stay depressed about him and it is harmful to you and probably saddens other people who love you. Do YOU get treatment for your depression? Therapy at least to teach you how to better cope with your feelings about your son? If you go for help and get better, this would be an example for your son. If you don't get help, you are doing what he is doing and neither of you are moving ahead. Situational depression, caused by trauma such as your sons mental illness, can turn into clinical depression after you get used to feeling depressed...you stay depressed. It helps neither of you. I am concerned about you as I know the awful hopeless feeling of the black hole of depression that is so bad you can't work. I have been there. I am sorry you also know this type of depression. I am angry that the most severely mentally ill often end up in jail. I'm sorry. It is so unjust. I hope you stay. We care very much about both of you. [/QUOTE]
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