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She got fired.
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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 521465" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Hi Kathy,</p><p>I think your daughter needs to really, truly understand that both her mental illness and sobriety issues are going to be chronic, life-long issues that she alone must be committed to facing. It will take enormous effort every single day of her life - she will need therapy and counseling and medication, and will need to attend sobriety meetings, too. That's a huge commitment - can she do it day after day, while still holding down a job and an apartment? That's the $64,000 question. The only way to start is one day at a time, but for sure, this has/will affect your family always, no matter where difficult child lives. To use a cliche, she has to want it more than you want it for her. The classic difficult child problem is boring, challenging, repetitive, soul-searching, sober, predictable existence is just not their cup of tea for more than a few months at a time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 521465, member: 13882"] Hi Kathy, I think your daughter needs to really, truly understand that both her mental illness and sobriety issues are going to be chronic, life-long issues that she alone must be committed to facing. It will take enormous effort every single day of her life - she will need therapy and counseling and medication, and will need to attend sobriety meetings, too. That's a huge commitment - can she do it day after day, while still holding down a job and an apartment? That's the $64,000 question. The only way to start is one day at a time, but for sure, this has/will affect your family always, no matter where difficult child lives. To use a cliche, she has to want it more than you want it for her. The classic difficult child problem is boring, challenging, repetitive, soul-searching, sober, predictable existence is just not their cup of tea for more than a few months at a time. [/QUOTE]
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