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<blockquote data-quote="poppy" data-source="post: 748889" data-attributes="member: 12498"><p>I also have two married daughters leading normal lives with careers, childen, houses, hobbies, etc. who I'm regularly in contact with. I can't take credit for their successes the same as I can't take blame for my son's problems. They were all raised the same. This is the first time I am working on acceptance of my son's condition without losing myself in the process. I've only ever let myself feel as good as he does, riding that roller coaster right alongside him. I've been enmeshed in his life for so long. Did it help or prevent any of the episodes? No, they flared up just the same. Detachment is a new skill for me. I've always been a nuturing mom, and detachment does not fit in with my natural instincts.</p><p></p><p>I do have a counselor and my husband has one for himself, and we've got family counseling lined up to include my son in order to put our ripped apart family back together, if it ever happens that we reunite. We have decided that our son will no longer live with us and right now he has no interest in that anyway. Social services was supposed to get him into a housing placement when he was released from jail/hospital but because charges were dropped he was released to the streets. I was glad charges were dropped, but with that went the services that were getting set up for him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poppy, post: 748889, member: 12498"] I also have two married daughters leading normal lives with careers, childen, houses, hobbies, etc. who I'm regularly in contact with. I can't take credit for their successes the same as I can't take blame for my son's problems. They were all raised the same. This is the first time I am working on acceptance of my son's condition without losing myself in the process. I've only ever let myself feel as good as he does, riding that roller coaster right alongside him. I've been enmeshed in his life for so long. Did it help or prevent any of the episodes? No, they flared up just the same. Detachment is a new skill for me. I've always been a nuturing mom, and detachment does not fit in with my natural instincts. I do have a counselor and my husband has one for himself, and we've got family counseling lined up to include my son in order to put our ripped apart family back together, if it ever happens that we reunite. We have decided that our son will no longer live with us and right now he has no interest in that anyway. Social services was supposed to get him into a housing placement when he was released from jail/hospital but because charges were dropped he was released to the streets. I was glad charges were dropped, but with that went the services that were getting set up for him. [/QUOTE]
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