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He was really trying. Got his medications straightened out. Showed up every day, on time. I know, because he gives me his pay stubs. Made lists. Got accommodations. He had a minor fender bender in the parking lot, which the other party decided no damage was done. Other party reported it to his...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/opinion/parenting-adult-children.html?referringSource=articleShare This article sums up our experience with our “difficult children” ( the article actually uses this term, which we used to use on PE ).

Hi everyone. My son got a bad work evaluation and is suspended for three days. The issues as I see it, are unmedicated ADHD, learning disability, possible sleep apnea, some substances at night, (he likes beer, hard lemonade, and kratom) and undermedicated anxiety. He is devastated. His self...

Just need to vent. It’s been a long journey with our son. Maybe some of you remember me, and I’m sure a lot of you don’t. We went over to son’s apartment fo well being check. Said he was coming over for pizza. 2 hours later no response. We show up. He’s pissed. He and dad have words. Dad is...

We saw our son today. He hadn't shaved, but other than that he looked ok. He's got the money for the rent on April 1st. He has a couple of job leads, but hasn't applied. Still figuring out what he wants to do. Offered to help him in May if he goes to Intensive Outpatient like all the MH...

i usually post in Parents Emeritus. Some of you know me. After 11 months of independent living ( spent three years in sober living before that) he is drinking again. Brought him to ER Last Sunday. They said alcohol level was not high enough for admission. Now at University medical center in ER...

He's been at this place for over three years. He contacted the landlord, called his sister to have a look at the place. He has the deposit. He says he's a different person now, from when he was using. He thinks he can safely take benzos ( this came up during the psychiatric visit. Psychiatrist and...

Hi everyone, Need positive vibes prayers and fingers crossed! I was with him when he got the call. Of course he could not be selected or there could be issues because of the oncoming administration. We are cautiously optimistic, and know that it may not happen. But this job could...

So my son has contacted State of Illinois DVR. It's been about a month now. He said they did contact him and they would be calling him. He was amenable to this because some guy where he lives is receiving services and seems to be satisfied with what they're doing for him. He had contacted them...

Since our son has been sober since October and relatively stable, I'm posting here instead of the PE forum. I think it's appropriate as he has so many issues (seem to be slowly getting better, but so many not even listed below that it makes my head spin. For example, some Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), a little...

We thought Difficult Child was doing so well. Goes to work consistently. Feeling better on the new medication. Goes to therapy. Goes to improv class and group therapy for his social anxiety. Saving money, has 1000.00 in the bank. Until tonight, when we asked him to take over paying his bus...

Difficult Child has been out of the hospital for three weeks. He remains sober and off his substance. He started new antidepressant which is an MAO inhibitor. This is a medication of last resort as he has only had no to partial responses to the fifty thousand other antidepressants he's been on...

He went in yesterday...this was really a planned admission to 1. detox him off this quasi legal supplement called Kratom, which has opiod properties 2. stop the brintellex for a week since he cannot tolerate doing it outpatient and switch him to Ensam, which is an mao inhibitor patch. He's been...

Difficult Child says he never does anything fun any more. So he wants to come here Saturday night and spend the evening with his old friends. He says he will b home by 11 pm. He wanted to go to a concert last week and spend the night here, come in like 2 am. I said no. So he didn't go to the concert. I...

Difficult Child very upset. 5 day suspension. Too many call offs. He's very upset. He hates his job. A lot. He hates the 7 am start. Would he ask t hem for afternoons? Oh nooo....I had suggested t hat he get the employment counselor involved weeks ago. Is extremely depressed in AM then mood brightens as...

So our guy's doing better in some ways. The meltdowns about people at work and the residents of the house he lives at are way down. He talked about saving money. He talks about getting a second job. He says he applied to this agency where he used to do event security. He has come down a few...

Difficult Child has been at his grocery store job a whole year. Some of you might remember all the angst when he got the job, then got fired for being late, then asked for his job back, and the manager let him come back, and all the drama about how he was working in the deli and struggling because he has...

So he's been very much looking forward to his large income tax refund. He expected us to hand it over without delay. The thing is, we suspect he has a large credit card bill and is buying certain legal, but very expensive and questionable supplements. We have no concrete proof of this, just...

To recap, two weeks ago he was buying frozen food at Walgreen's and putting it on the Express Pay credit card instead of paying for it himself out of his own funds. He did this because his LINK card was out of money, for some inexplicable reason. We told him he was not to do this anymore. Then...

No, not OUR basement! LOL... He was moved to the basement room because the manager had been complaining that his room smells. He did tell me that he's been not doing the laundry consistently again and not taking showers. I don't get it. He looked really good when we saw him two weeks ago...