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Need advice: "can I just smoke a little?"
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<blockquote data-quote="welcometowitsend" data-source="post: 540167" data-attributes="member: 14356"><p>Based on your difficult child's diagnosis I would say absolutely not. He has ADHD which makes him impulsive and less likely to control 'urges' and he's had past depression. He has already abused and I believe would go right back to abusing again. I just had a conversation yesterday with a therapist and your difficult child description sounds like my difficult child and he said that kids like my difficult child are very likely to start self medicating. </p><p></p><p>Hold your ground - but explain the medical side of this to him. If he is in a good place right now then he should be able to understand the reasoning behind what he can and can't do. </p><p></p><p>My nephew suffered from an autoimmune disorder as a teenager - his doctors told him that he could not drink - not even one drink - the medications he was on and alcohol would destroy his liver. So, there was a medical reason for him to abstain and he understood it. Can you treat this like that with your difficult child? Get him to understand his medical diagnosis and how it would be a bad combination with drugs or alcohol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="welcometowitsend, post: 540167, member: 14356"] Based on your difficult child's diagnosis I would say absolutely not. He has ADHD which makes him impulsive and less likely to control 'urges' and he's had past depression. He has already abused and I believe would go right back to abusing again. I just had a conversation yesterday with a therapist and your difficult child description sounds like my difficult child and he said that kids like my difficult child are very likely to start self medicating. Hold your ground - but explain the medical side of this to him. If he is in a good place right now then he should be able to understand the reasoning behind what he can and can't do. My nephew suffered from an autoimmune disorder as a teenager - his doctors told him that he could not drink - not even one drink - the medications he was on and alcohol would destroy his liver. So, there was a medical reason for him to abstain and he understood it. Can you treat this like that with your difficult child? Get him to understand his medical diagnosis and how it would be a bad combination with drugs or alcohol. [/QUOTE]
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