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My child (now 28) has been doing cocaine. We’ve been down this road from time to time. I thought I’d be more upset. I REALLY did learn detachment and that I can’t control things from this group. I called him and told him to make time for me. When he came over, I just looked him in the eye and...

Hello everyone, Just checking in to say hi. It has been a very long time since I posted. Things are going fairly well. J is still sober-ish. He drinks and is making an effort to stop. He has slowed down significantly. My definition of sober-ish is no hard drugs. My hopes are that he can stop...

In my book, I wrote about a man known to us as "Irish". In short, he offered my son a tent when he was homeless. Recently, Irish lost his battle with addiction. J took it pretty hard. Also, an officer was shot recently, in our little hometown by a man on meth. The man also shot and...

Oh my. Where to start. My work temporarily moved me to a new beat. Another officer had a baby, so I was asked (volun-told) to fill in. I am so out of my element. I am accustomed to grabbing my patrol keys and saying “bye, see ya in 10 hours”. Now I’m stuck behind a desk in the middle of...

My 18 year old, senior in high school admitted to smoking weed "a few times". She came in my room this week crying to tell me she smoked one hit and got really scared seeing things and her neck was moving involuntarily. She asked me to pray for her, which is weird, as she decided 2 years ago...

My son was injured last night while wrestling with a friend. Not professional wrestling, just friends messing around. He thought he just hurt his back. When I got off duty, I went to check on him and he looked so bad. I took him to the ER. After waiting in my car for four hours (bc of Covid), a...

I was wondering how you all feel about your loved ones using marijuana. I remember when I found out my son was smoking marijuana at 16, I was devastated. Fast forward to 20 years old, he was using Heroine, Meth, Cocaine, Xanax, Hydrocodone, Huffing canned air, K2 and probably anything else he...

Hi all, I'm not sure if it is appropriate to share in this forum, but here goes. I apologize now for the length of this post. When my son was deep in his addiction (shortly prior to him becoming homeless), we had a "stand off" so to speak. He had plopped himself down in our front yard, in an...

Self Care....and GO!

Finish this sentence. It will be good for all of us. What I like about myself is the way my eyes light up when I laugh. They kinda dance. JMOM

I need feedback on a couple of things and am here this morning because I have a lot of feelings. This is long, unorganized and my grammar sucks...here we go. So I'll start with my 50 year old brother. I may have talked about him briefly. The short version is he is Bipolar and Borderline (BPD), he was...

Okay peeps, I started midnight shift 3 weeks ago, (9pm-7am) and I have midnight brain. I never know what day it is and have to use a Monday-Sunday pill box and alarms to remember EVERYTHING. LAWD help me!

So J turned 25 yesterday. He showed up in his new (used) truck he bought for himself. He earned his driver's license back and had the biggest smile on his face. He wanted to go to Hibachi. The friend he had with him kept asking the chef for sake. I didn't know it, but apparently if you ask...

Yeah, so someone on this forum let me in on a little secret. There's this dude named Eckhart Tolle on Youtube who teaches living in the present. SERIOUSLY????? Where has this little man been all my life? I've been practicing "living in the present" for two days. When you live in the present...

Hi all. I have some good news. I found this group of loving parents who have survived their child(ren) addiction. They are SOBER and kind, friendly and unassuming. They love their families, their higher power and one another. The REALLY good news is that they let me in! If you are here...

My son used to debate all the reasons pot is so good and his mother is so uninformed and not accepting. This is how I "won" the debate (in my mind, ha ha). The problem with marijuana is two fold. Pot in itself is probably the least lethal of drugs if smoked in your own home (not mine) and...

I usually post about my adult son who is a recovering addict. Today, I need suggestions on how to turn off my mind about my adult (50 y/o) brother. Unfortunately, I enabled him from when I was 18-30 ish. It all came to a head when he and my husband got into a physical altercation. This is...

Now that I have accepted J's addiction and recovery (he's on an upswing ), I keep in the corner of my mind that I'm not sure if I can do this again if my daughter's go through this. They are 13 and 10. I teach high school and am finding out the new age of Marijuana usage is 9. Really? 9...

I just thought I'd share one of my crazy little coping mechanisms. I keep a little diary in my bedside table with two colums. The first column in mad as hell, and the second is silver linings. It has some crazy stuff in it like: Mad as hell: Bought my kid a tent today because he'd rather do...