Search results for query: *

I just keep saying no. And it's working. It rolls off my tongue. No matter what the question is. "Can you meet me so I can straighten my hair?" my reply is "No". However, I admit I am going to give him a hair straightener so he can stop calling with this question. "Can you give me money for...

Difficult Child did four months in jail. I told them he was mentally ill and they evaluated him. Two doctors found him competent, legally anyway. Bummer, not the scenario I had envisioned with him receiving court ordered treatment. Oh well, another time. He is out on an ankle bracelet awaiting...

Hi everyone, My son is still in jail, thank God. When I first came to this site, I could never have imagined saying those words. I dreaded Difficult Child going to jail back then. I am still kind of sad every morning because I know its no fun there and I know it really is a crappy place to be. I could...

Hi to everyone. I have not been posting or even reading for several weeks. My son had been staying at an apt of a friend of his, who is also a friend of mine from N.A. but who had relapsed and is currently in active addiction. Some of you may recall that she had called me crying saying she...

Okay, its just too bizarre to figure out how the link that clearly belongs to "Mother's Everyday Experience of having Adult Child Suffering from Long-Term Mental Illness" is opening the "Grief and Lost Potential...." article. Trying this one more time. I am computer savvy, but this has truly...

These links are to scholarly articles I found interesting. I had downloaded them to my phone a while back and when I went to get the links online, I found I could no longer access them without an institutional permission something-or-other. So I sent them to google drive from my phone. I hope...

Hi. I have been on this site for about 3 months, rarely posting, but reading every second of free time I have, which actually amounts to about 6 hours a day. I read it on the train, walking down the street (walked into a pole the other day lol), during any boring meetings, and all day...

I have decided to petition my son. Actually it won't be me doing it, a very good friend of mine works for the place where the police will take him, the hospital, once a judge signs the order. She has asked me several times to do this and I have always said no. I have been afraid that he will...

I am new here and not too sure how to post. I have been reading all these threads for weeks and it has provided much comfort just knowing there are others. My son is 26. He was diagnosed bipolar at age 3 so I have been going through this with him his entire life. I didn't think he would live to...