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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 527276" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>recoveringenabler,</p><p></p><p>I can't tell you how much your posts have helped me. It was one of your posts that made me finally be able to stop being mad at my difficult child. I had let my anger stop me from seeing her mental illness and the severity of her anxiety disorder. I spent many years thinking that she was doing drugs to spite us and could just stop if she really wanted to. I never really believed in the mental illness and thought her issues would go away if she would just stop drinking and abusing prescription pills. Now I believe that the substance abuse is a coping mechanism and won't go away until she gets treatment for the mental illness.</p><p></p><p>As you said in that post, once I accepted her for who she was our relationship changed. It's not perfect by any means but we are able to talk now and she is making a real effort. I'm glad we decided to give DBT a second chance.</p><p></p><p>husband and I are going to our first session tomorrow night with the counselor that runs the recovery center where difficult child goes to her Smart Recovery meetings. I am really looking forward to it. </p><p></p><p>I just wanted to thank you.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 527276, member: 1967"] recoveringenabler, I can't tell you how much your posts have helped me. It was one of your posts that made me finally be able to stop being mad at my difficult child. I had let my anger stop me from seeing her mental illness and the severity of her anxiety disorder. I spent many years thinking that she was doing drugs to spite us and could just stop if she really wanted to. I never really believed in the mental illness and thought her issues would go away if she would just stop drinking and abusing prescription pills. Now I believe that the substance abuse is a coping mechanism and won't go away until she gets treatment for the mental illness. As you said in that post, once I accepted her for who she was our relationship changed. It's not perfect by any means but we are able to talk now and she is making a real effort. I'm glad we decided to give DBT a second chance. husband and I are going to our first session tomorrow night with the counselor that runs the recovery center where difficult child goes to her Smart Recovery meetings. I am really looking forward to it. I just wanted to thank you. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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