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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 675734" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Hi Alb, it's great to get an update about you and Difficult Child.</p><p></p><p>What an experience you have had! Just reading your post, I felt the pull and tug and back and forth.</p><p></p><p>I would have done the same thing you are doing. Addiction is a disease of relapse. We know this in our minds but when it happens it feels personal. I have often wondered why rehabs kick out their patients when they relapse. It's like a cancer patient getting a bad test result and it's all over. No more trying to save the person. If a relapse is accompanied by the person still wanting to change, then...</p><p></p><p>With your situation Alb, the ups and downs have to be hard on you. Is it just too hard? If it is, that is completely understandable and you can only do what you can live with and the standards cannot be we give 1000% until we are out of our minds...all in the name of helping our children. Most of us have been there and done that and I never want to be in that shape again if I can guard against it .</p><p></p><p>I love the hope that his straight As brought. But he still has a serious deadly disease that requires treatment. Without it he likely can't stop on his own. </p><p></p><p>I hope he will regroup and take some steps to get treatment whatever that looks like, rehab, detox, AA, sessions with a substance abuse counselor, etc. whatever works. His grades are a clear indicator of promise. I hope he can look at what he has accomplished, relish it, own it, claim it and use it as a stepping stone to what is next.</p><p></p><p>So good to hear from you Alb. Please keep us posted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 675734, member: 17542"] Hi Alb, it's great to get an update about you and Difficult Child. What an experience you have had! Just reading your post, I felt the pull and tug and back and forth. I would have done the same thing you are doing. Addiction is a disease of relapse. We know this in our minds but when it happens it feels personal. I have often wondered why rehabs kick out their patients when they relapse. It's like a cancer patient getting a bad test result and it's all over. No more trying to save the person. If a relapse is accompanied by the person still wanting to change, then... With your situation Alb, the ups and downs have to be hard on you. Is it just too hard? If it is, that is completely understandable and you can only do what you can live with and the standards cannot be we give 1000% until we are out of our minds...all in the name of helping our children. Most of us have been there and done that and I never want to be in that shape again if I can guard against it . I love the hope that his straight As brought. But he still has a serious deadly disease that requires treatment. Without it he likely can't stop on his own. I hope he will regroup and take some steps to get treatment whatever that looks like, rehab, detox, AA, sessions with a substance abuse counselor, etc. whatever works. His grades are a clear indicator of promise. I hope he can look at what he has accomplished, relish it, own it, claim it and use it as a stepping stone to what is next. So good to hear from you Alb. Please keep us posted. [/QUOTE]
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