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<blockquote data-quote="so ready to live" data-source="post: 722987" data-attributes="member: 20054"><p>So sorry Sam. No parents should have to go through this, we have.</p><p> My older son had to wrestle the younger one down to restrain once, we put him in the car, drove 45 min. to a psychiatric facility only to be turned away as he wasn't "bad enough". A long drive home that was. We later called police to our home at 2am when he came home abusive, crazy drunk and/or on whatever. I sat on porch and cried to see officers put him face down on our lawn to handcuff him, a picture forever burnt in my mind. It's strange, now 10 yrs. later, I still remember all the stories, he remembers none. </p><p>You did the right thing. Your son's making poor adultlike choices, you are protecting your family.</p><p></p><p>It's not shaming or blaming to allow adult consequences for adult choices. If he had been a stranger, you would have called police. He's a stranger. This isn't the boy you raised but the man he is now. Hopefully not the man he will always be...but this day you brought him a step closer to manning up. You did the right thing. It certainly was not the easy thing. Hold tight, you'll get through this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="so ready to live, post: 722987, member: 20054"] So sorry Sam. No parents should have to go through this, we have. My older son had to wrestle the younger one down to restrain once, we put him in the car, drove 45 min. to a psychiatric facility only to be turned away as he wasn't "bad enough". A long drive home that was. We later called police to our home at 2am when he came home abusive, crazy drunk and/or on whatever. I sat on porch and cried to see officers put him face down on our lawn to handcuff him, a picture forever burnt in my mind. It's strange, now 10 yrs. later, I still remember all the stories, he remembers none. You did the right thing. Your son's making poor adultlike choices, you are protecting your family. It's not shaming or blaming to allow adult consequences for adult choices. If he had been a stranger, you would have called police. He's a stranger. This isn't the boy you raised but the man he is now. Hopefully not the man he will always be...but this day you brought him a step closer to manning up. You did the right thing. It certainly was not the easy thing. Hold tight, you'll get through this. [/QUOTE]
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