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Need advice: adult son with mental problems ... things getting worse
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<blockquote data-quote="Sam3" data-source="post: 727800" data-attributes="member: 19290"><p>I don’t know. That sounds like a newly problematic drug habit or a depressive cycle or an extended low point in life, more that some protracted difficult child thing. </p><p></p><p>I’m not sure that changes much — if he’s not doing anything about it. </p><p></p><p>But maybe it would make it easier to be patient and encouraging. He has made many positive choices in his life. It might be meaningful to him to know that you don’t think he’s doomed. That maybe this is a really rough patch that he, above all, knows he has to emerge from eventually, whether he admits it or not right now. </p><p></p><p>I think if we treat as a “given” that healthy adult children are independent, and that any period of dependency is temporary, we don’t lower the bar or drop it altogether. </p><p></p><p>(I’m going to see if I can dig up some wisdoms along these lines, that I had bookmarked from the forum.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sam3, post: 727800, member: 19290"] I don’t know. That sounds like a newly problematic drug habit or a depressive cycle or an extended low point in life, more that some protracted difficult child thing. I’m not sure that changes much — if he’s not doing anything about it. But maybe it would make it easier to be patient and encouraging. He has made many positive choices in his life. It might be meaningful to him to know that you don’t think he’s doomed. That maybe this is a really rough patch that he, above all, knows he has to emerge from eventually, whether he admits it or not right now. I think if we treat as a “given” that healthy adult children are independent, and that any period of dependency is temporary, we don’t lower the bar or drop it altogether. (I’m going to see if I can dig up some wisdoms along these lines, that I had bookmarked from the forum.) [/QUOTE]
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