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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 693434" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>RN, when he is ready, he will be. I doubt my daughter never again saw drugs or people who use drugs and before she was ready, she put herself in considerable danger. She had drug dealers after her. I didnt know any of this, thankfully.</p><p></p><p>When your son is sick and tired of drugs, you will see a big attitute change. He could be there now. You know him. See if his latest scare makes hin work harder in his recovery.</p><p></p><p>We all feel bad for our kids. We love them. But it doesn't help their mental illnesses and drug problems to make excuses for behavior that can kill them. If they have anxiety or depression, so do millions of others...anxiety is the most common mental illness and is very treatable. So is depression. They, as adults, need to take the lead in getting mental health treatment. How does meth or heroin or cocaine help anxiety or depression?</p><p></p><p>They are smart. They know that treatment could help them, but it takes work. I speak as one who cant remember a time when I didn't fight severe depression and anxiety, but I got help and tried hard and its so much better. Not every anxious or depressed person takes recreational drugs. Anxiety, in particular, CAN get much better with only therapy.</p><p></p><p>I made my daughter leave so that maybe she would quit using speed and meth. She looked like a walking corpse. She was lucky that she quit before her very straight brother, who took her in, threw her out. She did decide to quit,with her boyfriends help. It has been eleven or twelve normal years since. When asked why she quit she said,"Drug life is too hard."</p><p></p><p>I think it works better if we cry privately, but let them fend for themselves. My daughter had a basement to live in, but her brother is not warm or caring (Goneboy) and kept telling her that if she lit up one cigarette, didnt clean the house, didnt cook, cook or didnt work to pay rent, she was gone. He meant it. She didnt want to be homeless. She knew him best. He makes no idle threats. He can be ice cold.</p><p></p><p>I was surprised at how well she did. And has continued to do. She knew that Goneboy would cut her not one inch of slack. Ske knew I'd waver. She did great with serious tough love.</p><p></p><p>Gone boy may no longer want to be in our lives, but he did help my daughter quit speed and meth and psychodelics and downers for sleep. I will always be grateful to him for that. I really believed she'd end up in prison or die. Instead, she went back to school, bought a hone with her boyfriend of twelve years snd us the awesome mother of my precious granddaughter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 693434, member: 1550"] RN, when he is ready, he will be. I doubt my daughter never again saw drugs or people who use drugs and before she was ready, she put herself in considerable danger. She had drug dealers after her. I didnt know any of this, thankfully. When your son is sick and tired of drugs, you will see a big attitute change. He could be there now. You know him. See if his latest scare makes hin work harder in his recovery. We all feel bad for our kids. We love them. But it doesn't help their mental illnesses and drug problems to make excuses for behavior that can kill them. If they have anxiety or depression, so do millions of others...anxiety is the most common mental illness and is very treatable. So is depression. They, as adults, need to take the lead in getting mental health treatment. How does meth or heroin or cocaine help anxiety or depression? They are smart. They know that treatment could help them, but it takes work. I speak as one who cant remember a time when I didn't fight severe depression and anxiety, but I got help and tried hard and its so much better. Not every anxious or depressed person takes recreational drugs. Anxiety, in particular, CAN get much better with only therapy. I made my daughter leave so that maybe she would quit using speed and meth. She looked like a walking corpse. She was lucky that she quit before her very straight brother, who took her in, threw her out. She did decide to quit,with her boyfriends help. It has been eleven or twelve normal years since. When asked why she quit she said,"Drug life is too hard." I think it works better if we cry privately, but let them fend for themselves. My daughter had a basement to live in, but her brother is not warm or caring (Goneboy) and kept telling her that if she lit up one cigarette, didnt clean the house, didnt cook, cook or didnt work to pay rent, she was gone. He meant it. She didnt want to be homeless. She knew him best. He makes no idle threats. He can be ice cold. I was surprised at how well she did. And has continued to do. She knew that Goneboy would cut her not one inch of slack. Ske knew I'd waver. She did great with serious tough love. Gone boy may no longer want to be in our lives, but he did help my daughter quit speed and meth and psychodelics and downers for sleep. I will always be grateful to him for that. I really believed she'd end up in prison or die. Instead, she went back to school, bought a hone with her boyfriend of twelve years snd us the awesome mother of my precious granddaughter. [/QUOTE]
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