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What do you wish you had said to your child about drugs?
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<blockquote data-quote="UpandDown" data-source="post: 679800" data-attributes="member: 19025"><p>From that I have learned through some of the parent therapy we have attended in our son's treatment is that gaming is one way that kids/teens escape. When I think back to when my son's life really began to unravel it was with xbox. It was a full blown addiction. He played online with his peers and because he was an excellent gamer, he got all kinds of positive social rewards. We would set up limits and he found a way around them. He would get up in the night and play when we were asleep. We would up the ante and he was right there ready to outsmart us. He changed the passwords, you name it. It was a game of cat and mouse. Eventually we just took it away. Got it completely out of the house and impossible to get back. It makes me feel sick to think about it. Because the biggest mistake we made was underestimating just how much he used that to cope. Albeit not a healthy coping, it was an escape. So in a matter of seconds we left him with nothing to deal with all that he had swirling in his head. And then he moved on to much worse ways of dealing with his pain. If only we knew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpandDown, post: 679800, member: 19025"] From that I have learned through some of the parent therapy we have attended in our son's treatment is that gaming is one way that kids/teens escape. When I think back to when my son's life really began to unravel it was with xbox. It was a full blown addiction. He played online with his peers and because he was an excellent gamer, he got all kinds of positive social rewards. We would set up limits and he found a way around them. He would get up in the night and play when we were asleep. We would up the ante and he was right there ready to outsmart us. He changed the passwords, you name it. It was a game of cat and mouse. Eventually we just took it away. Got it completely out of the house and impossible to get back. It makes me feel sick to think about it. Because the biggest mistake we made was underestimating just how much he used that to cope. Albeit not a healthy coping, it was an escape. So in a matter of seconds we left him with nothing to deal with all that he had swirling in his head. And then he moved on to much worse ways of dealing with his pain. If only we knew. [/QUOTE]
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