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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 113370" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>My son eventually lived in the living room, sleeping on the sofa. It was after we moved and his bedroom was too far away from where other people were. Considering that his father and I were the only live people he had contact with, he just wanted to be where he could see what was going on all the time. Once his father started working out of town and then left completely, he only had me. It's pretty lonely when you have no friends and your only live human contact is with your mother but you just. can't. leave. the. house.</p><p></p><p>Of course he stayed up all night and slept during the day. That's what most teens would do if their lives were such that they didn't have to get up in the morning to go to school or jobs. That's how their internal clocks are set. What we found out was that there is an amazing number of teens out there who live that way. I was grateful he knew people on line that he could consider his friends. Eventually he moved out and met some of them who are now some of his real life friends.</p><p></p><p>Once he got off the antidepressant, the anger was pretty much frustration triggered. Unfortunately being unable to leave the house and have friends and a life is pretty frustrating. And, even more unfortunately, that anger was targeted at me. But his choices were him or me. I don't think he would have survived more self hatred and loathing so I learned to not internalize his anger. </p><p></p><p>You know, he use to envy me because I went to grocery store. He couldn't do that. He hated himself for his shortcomings. And hated me for my freedom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 113370, member: 1498"] My son eventually lived in the living room, sleeping on the sofa. It was after we moved and his bedroom was too far away from where other people were. Considering that his father and I were the only live people he had contact with, he just wanted to be where he could see what was going on all the time. Once his father started working out of town and then left completely, he only had me. It's pretty lonely when you have no friends and your only live human contact is with your mother but you just. can't. leave. the. house. Of course he stayed up all night and slept during the day. That's what most teens would do if their lives were such that they didn't have to get up in the morning to go to school or jobs. That's how their internal clocks are set. What we found out was that there is an amazing number of teens out there who live that way. I was grateful he knew people on line that he could consider his friends. Eventually he moved out and met some of them who are now some of his real life friends. Once he got off the antidepressant, the anger was pretty much frustration triggered. Unfortunately being unable to leave the house and have friends and a life is pretty frustrating. And, even more unfortunately, that anger was targeted at me. But his choices were him or me. I don't think he would have survived more self hatred and loathing so I learned to not internalize his anger. You know, he use to envy me because I went to grocery store. He couldn't do that. He hated himself for his shortcomings. And hated me for my freedom. [/QUOTE]
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