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<blockquote data-quote="CAmom" data-source="post: 27658" data-attributes="member: 1835"><p>A psychotherapist we saw put it this or a similar way--that our son, G, is still the little boy he once was, but that layers and layers were piled on top of the CORE G including typical teenage issues along with his drug use. </p><p></p><p>He said that, at age 17, it would probably take ten years or so for those layers to be stripped away, leaving us with the core person we raised and loved, but that it WOULD happen eventually.</p><p></p><p>He also said that therapy to begin digging through those layers was basically a waste of time for most individuals younger than 25 or so unless they, themselves, were motivated. </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure if this is all true, but it does give me hope.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I wonder if my mentality my son's entire life which has basically been that he's in the process of growing and maturing, a work in progress, and that, at some point, he would step over some invisible line and suddenly become the man we thought we were raising. Now, I wonder if all the maturing and growing in the world is going to take a square peg and fit it into a round hole and that maybe he's going to just continue to be who has always been, that square peg, but just an older and larger version. </p><p></p><p>Well, I was serious until I read that last sentence, and now I'm cracking myself up...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CAmom, post: 27658, member: 1835"] A psychotherapist we saw put it this or a similar way--that our son, G, is still the little boy he once was, but that layers and layers were piled on top of the CORE G including typical teenage issues along with his drug use. He said that, at age 17, it would probably take ten years or so for those layers to be stripped away, leaving us with the core person we raised and loved, but that it WOULD happen eventually. He also said that therapy to begin digging through those layers was basically a waste of time for most individuals younger than 25 or so unless they, themselves, were motivated. I'm not sure if this is all true, but it does give me hope. On the other hand, I wonder if my mentality my son's entire life which has basically been that he's in the process of growing and maturing, a work in progress, and that, at some point, he would step over some invisible line and suddenly become the man we thought we were raising. Now, I wonder if all the maturing and growing in the world is going to take a square peg and fit it into a round hole and that maybe he's going to just continue to be who has always been, that square peg, but just an older and larger version. Well, I was serious until I read that last sentence, and now I'm cracking myself up... [/QUOTE]
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