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My son told me he got stabbed. I can't stop shaking.
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<blockquote data-quote="tishthedish" data-source="post: 659787" data-attributes="member: 17103"><p>Hi Copa. I have been in your shoes with my Difficult Child 1 who is bipolar. He has told me horrendous things that have happened to him and has expressed hopelessness and rage. He has accused us of abuse and even said he was raped in a mental hospital. I was aghast and horrified, and like you shaken to the core. After examining this pattern of behavior and reassessing the "stories" I find that many of them were manufactured to elicit sympathy and some sort of response from me. They were also shared as a way to hurt me...kind of a show of power over my emotions from him to me. He knows that I would be heartsick over anything that happened to him. </p><p></p><p>I finally told him, "I understand your life has not been easy, but I am not the person to tell these things to. I am your mom and I will no longer listen to this type of talk. Tell a friend, tell a doctor or counselor, find a member of the clergy, but not me." He said ok and I haven't been told those kind of stories again. </p><p></p><p>My nephew who is 40 is also bipolar and living in a tent in a city in the south. He wrote my sister that he was living next to a murderer and arsonist and was in danger, could she please send him and his girlfriend money so they could get a hotel room across town. She was beside herself and when she told her doctor (she has dropped to under 100 lbs from the stress of all this) he started laughing and told her to tell him to move his tent. He called it what is was, a ruse/extortion. </p><p> </p><p>The things they come up with are unbelievable, literally. Hang in there. You are getting stronger so the ante is going to be upped in order to get a reaction from you. Hugs and more hugs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tishthedish, post: 659787, member: 17103"] Hi Copa. I have been in your shoes with my Difficult Child 1 who is bipolar. He has told me horrendous things that have happened to him and has expressed hopelessness and rage. He has accused us of abuse and even said he was raped in a mental hospital. I was aghast and horrified, and like you shaken to the core. After examining this pattern of behavior and reassessing the "stories" I find that many of them were manufactured to elicit sympathy and some sort of response from me. They were also shared as a way to hurt me...kind of a show of power over my emotions from him to me. He knows that I would be heartsick over anything that happened to him. I finally told him, "I understand your life has not been easy, but I am not the person to tell these things to. I am your mom and I will no longer listen to this type of talk. Tell a friend, tell a doctor or counselor, find a member of the clergy, but not me." He said ok and I haven't been told those kind of stories again. My nephew who is 40 is also bipolar and living in a tent in a city in the south. He wrote my sister that he was living next to a murderer and arsonist and was in danger, could she please send him and his girlfriend money so they could get a hotel room across town. She was beside herself and when she told her doctor (she has dropped to under 100 lbs from the stress of all this) he started laughing and told her to tell him to move his tent. He called it what is was, a ruse/extortion. The things they come up with are unbelievable, literally. Hang in there. You are getting stronger so the ante is going to be upped in order to get a reaction from you. Hugs and more hugs. [/QUOTE]
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