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<blockquote data-quote="Baggy Bags" data-source="post: 728586" data-attributes="member: 22819"><p>Thank you, Copbanana</p><p></p><p>You sound right up my alley, actually. We live in a place with lots of alternative therapy, but my son will have none of it. Fortunately, we live in a very natural environment, lots of green and a lake. very hippie though, so lots of easy access to drugs. He does play the guitar, and tried a karate class today. I'm trying to get him to do more exercise. As a dancer's son, he danced a lot in early childhood, but now anything that has anything to do with me, is unattractive to him. He does spend time drawing, and even teaches art workshops in a community project we run, when he's stable. I don't know that there is any actual "art therapy" around though. Will look.</p><p></p><p>I've gone from wanting nothing to do with diagnoses, to spending any free time I have reading everything I can about it. It does feel like it's becoming the center of my existence. Probably some Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) there of my own. Everything is so volatile right now, it feels like learning about it is the only way I can have any "control". This does have me worried though, because I know I shouldn't let the diagnosis "become" my son. But again, it's all so new. I don't even know the right words to use, or how much to talk to my son about it, or even how much to focus on the diagnosis itself. There's also the whole stigmatization issue - I need to talk to friends about what I'm going through, but don't want them to start seeing my son as his diagnosis.... so many things to learn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Baggy Bags, post: 728586, member: 22819"] Thank you, Copbanana You sound right up my alley, actually. We live in a place with lots of alternative therapy, but my son will have none of it. Fortunately, we live in a very natural environment, lots of green and a lake. very hippie though, so lots of easy access to drugs. He does play the guitar, and tried a karate class today. I'm trying to get him to do more exercise. As a dancer's son, he danced a lot in early childhood, but now anything that has anything to do with me, is unattractive to him. He does spend time drawing, and even teaches art workshops in a community project we run, when he's stable. I don't know that there is any actual "art therapy" around though. Will look. I've gone from wanting nothing to do with diagnoses, to spending any free time I have reading everything I can about it. It does feel like it's becoming the center of my existence. Probably some Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) there of my own. Everything is so volatile right now, it feels like learning about it is the only way I can have any "control". This does have me worried though, because I know I shouldn't let the diagnosis "become" my son. But again, it's all so new. I don't even know the right words to use, or how much to talk to my son about it, or even how much to focus on the diagnosis itself. There's also the whole stigmatization issue - I need to talk to friends about what I'm going through, but don't want them to start seeing my son as his diagnosis.... so many things to learn. [/QUOTE]
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