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I feel I'm losing it because I think I should move to Colorado and save him.
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<blockquote data-quote="blackgnat" data-source="post: 702737" data-attributes="member: 13561"><p>Thanks for all replies-they all help enormously, especially to gain perspective.</p><p></p><p>So, after what seems like hundreds of calls, he has been shoehorned into a 28 day program, so he can be stabilised on his medications, and then a 6 month program with the salvation Army. All of us who work behind the scenes are elated! Him? Not so much...</p><p></p><p>He calls us all multiple times a day, saying he's not sure he can do it, would rather be "effed up" out on the streets, doesn't like all the rules, knows he's not going to be successful at it. Comes up with all sorts of admin glitches-to get a free bed, he needs papers from the shelter and they neither fax nor email them-he has to go back to Boulder to get them and, "Ma, you know that going back there is risky for me, right?". He doesn't get the value and effort of what has gone on behind the scenes to get him in this program, nor does he think, apparently, that having warmth, shelter, food, medical supervision etc is more valuable than being high/drunk and freezing his buns off in the Colorado winter. </p><p></p><p>THAT is where his priorities lie. So, it's abundantly clear that there's NOTHING more to be done, if he chooses to "dip out" of there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blackgnat, post: 702737, member: 13561"] Thanks for all replies-they all help enormously, especially to gain perspective. So, after what seems like hundreds of calls, he has been shoehorned into a 28 day program, so he can be stabilised on his medications, and then a 6 month program with the salvation Army. All of us who work behind the scenes are elated! Him? Not so much... He calls us all multiple times a day, saying he's not sure he can do it, would rather be "effed up" out on the streets, doesn't like all the rules, knows he's not going to be successful at it. Comes up with all sorts of admin glitches-to get a free bed, he needs papers from the shelter and they neither fax nor email them-he has to go back to Boulder to get them and, "Ma, you know that going back there is risky for me, right?". He doesn't get the value and effort of what has gone on behind the scenes to get him in this program, nor does he think, apparently, that having warmth, shelter, food, medical supervision etc is more valuable than being high/drunk and freezing his buns off in the Colorado winter. THAT is where his priorities lie. So, it's abundantly clear that there's NOTHING more to be done, if he chooses to "dip out" of there. [/QUOTE]
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