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How do I help my mentally ill 20 year old?
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 723890" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Worriedmum, I'm sorry you're going thru this with your daughter. It is difficult when our kids are struggling and we feel powerless to offer any kind of assistance.</p><p></p><p>I don't know enough to comment on your daughter's diagnosis, but what I will say is that along with finding ways to assist your daughter, I believe it's imperative to find support for us as well. It may be prudent for you to find a support system which will offer you a safe place to go to get heard, find guidance, vent, express yourself and gather information and resources. I am not aware of what that might be in England, but it may be worthwhile for you to look into getting yourself a good support system and developing a "tool box" which is what we call all of the items that help us get thru the times when our kids go off the rails.</p><p></p><p>Here in the U.S. we have an organization called NAMI the National Alliance on Mental Illness which can help parents find solutions to the challenges our adult kids have. They can be accessed on line, you may want to check them out and find out if you have something similar in your country.</p><p></p><p>Hang in there, keep posting, it helps a lot......if you haven't already, get yourself a strong support system......take care of you too.......as you can see.......you're not alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 723890, member: 13542"] Worriedmum, I'm sorry you're going thru this with your daughter. It is difficult when our kids are struggling and we feel powerless to offer any kind of assistance. I don't know enough to comment on your daughter's diagnosis, but what I will say is that along with finding ways to assist your daughter, I believe it's imperative to find support for us as well. It may be prudent for you to find a support system which will offer you a safe place to go to get heard, find guidance, vent, express yourself and gather information and resources. I am not aware of what that might be in England, but it may be worthwhile for you to look into getting yourself a good support system and developing a "tool box" which is what we call all of the items that help us get thru the times when our kids go off the rails. Here in the U.S. we have an organization called NAMI the National Alliance on Mental Illness which can help parents find solutions to the challenges our adult kids have. They can be accessed on line, you may want to check them out and find out if you have something similar in your country. Hang in there, keep posting, it helps a lot......if you haven't already, get yourself a strong support system......take care of you too.......as you can see.......you're not alone. [/QUOTE]
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