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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 703891" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>I'm so sorry for your struggles with your daughter Resilient. </p><p></p><p>If you are in the U.S. you might try contacting NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, you can connect with them online and they have chapters in many cities. They offer excellent courses for parents which can give you information, guidance, support and compassion. Being the parent of an adult child with mental health issues is extremely challenging and NAMI can help. </p><p></p><p>Presently you are powerless to control or impact your daughter's choices, a terrible place for us to be. To help you deal with that powerlessness, the grief, the fear, the worry and the general awfulness of all of it, it is a good idea for you to seek support for yourself. My suggestion is that you find a counselor, a therapist, a parent group or someplace you can go to receive the support you need and deserve. NAMI may be a good place to start.</p><p></p><p>There is an article at the bottom of my post here on detachment, it may offer you some solace and information.</p><p></p><p>Seek support for yourself, keep posting and try to take the focus off of your daughter for now and place it on <em>you</em>......be very kind to yourself, often we forget to take care of ourselves in the face of the bad choices our kids make.......</p><p></p><p>I'm glad you're here, you're not alone......we understand how you feel, we've been in your shoes.....hang in there.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 703891, member: 13542"] I'm so sorry for your struggles with your daughter Resilient. If you are in the U.S. you might try contacting NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, you can connect with them online and they have chapters in many cities. They offer excellent courses for parents which can give you information, guidance, support and compassion. Being the parent of an adult child with mental health issues is extremely challenging and NAMI can help. Presently you are powerless to control or impact your daughter's choices, a terrible place for us to be. To help you deal with that powerlessness, the grief, the fear, the worry and the general awfulness of all of it, it is a good idea for you to seek support for yourself. My suggestion is that you find a counselor, a therapist, a parent group or someplace you can go to receive the support you need and deserve. NAMI may be a good place to start. There is an article at the bottom of my post here on detachment, it may offer you some solace and information. Seek support for yourself, keep posting and try to take the focus off of your daughter for now and place it on [I]you[/I]......be very kind to yourself, often we forget to take care of ourselves in the face of the bad choices our kids make....... I'm glad you're here, you're not alone......we understand how you feel, we've been in your shoes.....hang in there..... [/QUOTE]
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