homeless

I came across this website a couple of months ago when searching for how to cope with an addicted, homeless adult child. Reading your posts has helped me to realize I am not alone, and it has helped me to cope. Thank you to everyone who has posted. I had been reading Al Anon literature...

This is my first time posting a thread. My 21 yr old daughter has bipolar disorder and it’s been such a struggle. She moved out last December, was depressed then manic, was hospitalized, got the mania under control but she still made bad choices that got her evicted. We haven’t allowed her to...

Hi, I'm new so your forgiveness is begged if I screw up how to do this. Daughter age 21 has had a lifetime of difficulty, I don't even want to say dual diagnoses, there are like five, ex and I (still amicable) are exhausted and broke. Endless hospitalizations, never keeps a job, wrecks housing...

My son has been homeless for a couple months. I had to make him leave my house due to significant behavioral issues. I think he is living in his car. Not sure. He texted recently, still angry that I asked him to leave...ranting and raving about various things. Even after a couple months of...

This is very hard to write, but here goes.... I have three kids, OB Oldest Boy, MG Middle Girl and YB Youngest Boy. They are 35, 38 and 39. I am 58. None of my kids talk to me. Please don't judge because I would turn into a puddle, right here right now. My first husband was a womanizing loser...

Of course my son comes home today from a friend’s house and is wasted. This isn’t stopping anytime soon. He broke glass all over in his room and is crying like a baby. It’s everyone else’s fault, he won’t take responsibility. I’m afraid if I put him out he will only come back. I told him to...

I'm back in contact with C - at least I was yesterday - and he is frustrated and discouraged. I have told him he cannot stay here, but I will help him with deposit and one month's rent someplace where he will be able to get to a job and sustain it on his own. I told him this is a one time offer...

Well, C reached out to me again, so I know he's alive at least. But of course, there is drama. After a couple of days of sleeping rough, he reached back out to his dad again and begged for another chance there. He's never asked to move in with me - I think he already knows what my answer will...

So, my son is on the streets - as far as I know - and hasn’t contacted me for days. When we last spoke he sounded in despair. I encouraged him to look into sober living houses and gave him a couple places he could call. He said he couldn’t do that, he wants to stop drinking and taking hard drugs...

Tony had lived on the streets for 45 years, and in recent years had become increasingly physically unwell. Despite this he refused all offers of help, and it became clear to his support workers that he found social engagement of any kind very distressing. It was only when it was recognised that...

Posting this on behalf of @sadmother Hi I saw this blog and a bit of comfort hearing that what is happening in my life is not that original. My 41 year old is a homeless addict. Looking back the last 20 years I can see how we enabled him always, since high school, stealing from us and...

After 9 years of trying to help, we evicted our son from our house. Three months before his 26th birthday, my husband and I decided that having him live at home was doing him more harm than good. Over the past nine years he has struggled with heroin and meth, been incarcerated a handful of...

Well today AS/Difficult Child says he doesn't feel he needs in patient rehab, he feels he needs and anger management course and that is all. He has not been contributing in any way to the household what so ever. Continues to come home high. Has missed school and been late all but 1 day in 3 weeks...and we...

Our 39 year old son has been abusing alcohol and/or other drugs for 20 years. He went to a 30-day inpatient treatment 4 years ago for alcohol and opioids. He was sober for nearly 2 years and then turned to street drugs (meth). He is articulate, handsome, charming and holds a law degree, but...

My daughter has been living off a divorce settlement for 7 years..either sponging at her dad's house or, when he kicked her out, living unsuccessfully in a shared place...she never gets along even when she has a good thing going. She hasn't worked in 6 years and, if she even is looking, she's...

My son is 22 and started having behavior trouble since middle school. We tried counseling and eventually rehabs once we found out that he was using drugs. After several rehab attempts, we sent him to be home schooled and live with his grandmother during his senior year after finding drugs in my...

I have just recently found this site, I have read several stories which are similar to mine. I have a son, my only son and my first born. He is 32. He went from being one of the most popular boys in town and school , in small town America ,to now being homeless in suburbia outside of L.A, for...

...that my son is homeless. Why? Because he hasn't left our neighborhood. I see him walking or biking or sitting or hanging out all over the place. The short drive to/from the freeway from my house is fraught on a daily basis with "wonder where I'm gonna see him today?" I completely...