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Please help me with my adult son :(
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<blockquote data-quote="Sister's Keeper" data-source="post: 679481" data-attributes="member: 20051"><p>His sobriety is his responsibility. If he really wants to maintain his sobriety he will work to do so, no matter what his environment.</p><p></p><p>If he chooses to relapse he will choose to do so, regardless of his environment. </p><p></p><p>No matter what you do, or don't, provide for him he must make the choice to accept responsibility for his own sobriety and mental health care. </p><p></p><p>My sister is the same. In jail goes to 12 step meetings, takes antidepressants, toes the line. She gets out of jail, and is full of promises and plans about how she is going to stay sober, and get a job, and get the kids back. She never follows through. </p><p></p><p>She is full of excuses as to why. Living in a bad place, homeless, no transportation, can't afford her medication (but can afford heroin) The thing I have learned to tell her (and she isn't allowed here because of theft, never violence) is "if you really wanted it, if it were really the most important thing in your life, you would fight to find a way." If they are smart enough to find a way to get drugs, they are smart enough to find a way to get treatment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sister's Keeper, post: 679481, member: 20051"] His sobriety is his responsibility. If he really wants to maintain his sobriety he will work to do so, no matter what his environment. If he chooses to relapse he will choose to do so, regardless of his environment. No matter what you do, or don't, provide for him he must make the choice to accept responsibility for his own sobriety and mental health care. My sister is the same. In jail goes to 12 step meetings, takes antidepressants, toes the line. She gets out of jail, and is full of promises and plans about how she is going to stay sober, and get a job, and get the kids back. She never follows through. She is full of excuses as to why. Living in a bad place, homeless, no transportation, can't afford her medication (but can afford heroin) The thing I have learned to tell her (and she isn't allowed here because of theft, never violence) is "if you really wanted it, if it were really the most important thing in your life, you would fight to find a way." If they are smart enough to find a way to get drugs, they are smart enough to find a way to get treatment. [/QUOTE]
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