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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 669354" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Hi Susie, I am so sorry about your son.</p><p></p><p>In reading your post, I remembered something that might be helpful. My former sister-in-law struggled with depression most of her life. She would go for long periods of time doing well and then have very deep periods of depression and suicide attempts. </p><p></p><p>Antidepressants and therapy didn't seem to work. She was hospitalized multiple times and the family was just frantic. She had had difficulties in her life, traumatic events, that really affected her later in life. </p><p></p><p>finally, the doctors recommended shock treatments. At first, we were 100 percent opposed to this (shades of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, we thought) but we did research and learned that this is different and they have had tremendous results with the really tough cases.</p><p></p><p>Can you get help to get your son hospitalized for a full evaluation? </p><p></p><p>I know this is hard, but I wanted to share this thought. It may or may not be helpful.</p><p></p><p>In any event, regardless, we understand on this forum the deep helplessness we feel when our precious adult children are struggling. We have been there. Ultimately, after we try different measures to help them, we have to start helping ourselves.</p><p></p><p>That is a very hard step to take, turning the focus from them to us.</p><p></p><p>Please keep posting here. We understand, and we are here for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 669354, member: 17542"] Hi Susie, I am so sorry about your son. In reading your post, I remembered something that might be helpful. My former sister-in-law struggled with depression most of her life. She would go for long periods of time doing well and then have very deep periods of depression and suicide attempts. Antidepressants and therapy didn't seem to work. She was hospitalized multiple times and the family was just frantic. She had had difficulties in her life, traumatic events, that really affected her later in life. finally, the doctors recommended shock treatments. At first, we were 100 percent opposed to this (shades of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, we thought) but we did research and learned that this is different and they have had tremendous results with the really tough cases. Can you get help to get your son hospitalized for a full evaluation? I know this is hard, but I wanted to share this thought. It may or may not be helpful. In any event, regardless, we understand on this forum the deep helplessness we feel when our precious adult children are struggling. We have been there. Ultimately, after we try different measures to help them, we have to start helping ourselves. That is a very hard step to take, turning the focus from them to us. Please keep posting here. We understand, and we are here for you. [/QUOTE]
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