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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 685564" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Kt, wow. When it rains, it pours. Sorry about your car and then (just what you needed) an accident.</p><p></p><p>Kt, your son is not bad. He is sick. If your husband won't let him get treatment, as he would allow if your son had diabetes or epilepsy, then very soon you may have an eighteen year old untreated drug addict on your hands, and legally you CANT help him unless he agrees, and they usually don't.</p><p></p><p>Maybe you can help your husband to see your son as somebody who is sick and he can't help him because he's not a medical professional. I think often denial keeps us from getting help for them (or trying to) when they are still young. We feel badly for them because we love them. But our love and pity won't solve drug use or mental health problems.</p><p></p><p>Before we know it, our teen can be 25 or older, out of our control, emotionally arrested and angry, usually at the world but mostly at us.</p><p></p><p>Will your husband read our answers???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 685564, member: 1550"] Kt, wow. When it rains, it pours. Sorry about your car and then (just what you needed) an accident. Kt, your son is not bad. He is sick. If your husband won't let him get treatment, as he would allow if your son had diabetes or epilepsy, then very soon you may have an eighteen year old untreated drug addict on your hands, and legally you CANT help him unless he agrees, and they usually don't. Maybe you can help your husband to see your son as somebody who is sick and he can't help him because he's not a medical professional. I think often denial keeps us from getting help for them (or trying to) when they are still young. We feel badly for them because we love them. But our love and pity won't solve drug use or mental health problems. Before we know it, our teen can be 25 or older, out of our control, emotionally arrested and angry, usually at the world but mostly at us. Will your husband read our answers??? [/QUOTE]
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