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Worried Sick and don't know what to do...
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 540718"><p>I don't know about the state you are in but where i live the process to get someone committed to treatment is you go in and meet with the court psychiatrist... give them what you know of the situation, and then they bring in the person and interview them. The court psychiatrist makes a recommendation to the court. I have seen it (via my job) go either way depending a lot on the quality of the psychiatrist. It really helps if he is high when they bring him in... often people are sober and they sound good and don't want treatment... all the manipulation your son has done before. It is too bad they treat him as an adult at 17... although at 18 the same would be true anyways.</p><p></p><p>We have let my son be homeless three times. My son is 20 now... we ended up kicking him out of our home when he was 18. It is awful letting him be homeless, worse than jail (which he has also been in). Yet we came to the conclusion that until he wanted treatment there was literally nothing we could do and it had to be his choice.</p><p></p><p>Recently I felt there was a positive shift in our relationship and I saw him for a night as we were waiting to get him into treatment. I said I felt there had been a shift in our relationship and what was that due to... thinking it was one of the many recent treatment programs he had been in. He looked at me and said I think it was being homeless. That visit with him was positive between us, and believe me he has hated me too and been horrible to me in the past. He had been sober for several weeks.</p><p></p><p>Now I am not sure right now where he is with me since he just used again over the weekend. I think I should probably be thankful that I am not hearing from him right now. What it did make me realize is that there is hope for our relationship if and when he gets sober and deals with his other problems. And for a long time I had little hope that things would ever be better between us.</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 540718"] I don't know about the state you are in but where i live the process to get someone committed to treatment is you go in and meet with the court psychiatrist... give them what you know of the situation, and then they bring in the person and interview them. The court psychiatrist makes a recommendation to the court. I have seen it (via my job) go either way depending a lot on the quality of the psychiatrist. It really helps if he is high when they bring him in... often people are sober and they sound good and don't want treatment... all the manipulation your son has done before. It is too bad they treat him as an adult at 17... although at 18 the same would be true anyways. We have let my son be homeless three times. My son is 20 now... we ended up kicking him out of our home when he was 18. It is awful letting him be homeless, worse than jail (which he has also been in). Yet we came to the conclusion that until he wanted treatment there was literally nothing we could do and it had to be his choice. Recently I felt there was a positive shift in our relationship and I saw him for a night as we were waiting to get him into treatment. I said I felt there had been a shift in our relationship and what was that due to... thinking it was one of the many recent treatment programs he had been in. He looked at me and said I think it was being homeless. That visit with him was positive between us, and believe me he has hated me too and been horrible to me in the past. He had been sober for several weeks. Now I am not sure right now where he is with me since he just used again over the weekend. I think I should probably be thankful that I am not hearing from him right now. What it did make me realize is that there is hope for our relationship if and when he gets sober and deals with his other problems. And for a long time I had little hope that things would ever be better between us. TL [/QUOTE]
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