parents of drug users

Daughter called at 6:25 AM, crying, she was lonely. That was hard to hear but not surprising. Actaully, growth for her to feel . I talked to her an hour later and she sounded better. I do not have huge expectations for her socially but the adventure is a good and healthy one. I willl consistenly...

Hello, Looking for a long term inpatient facility that deals with anxiety and ODD and or Conduct disorder for a 15 yr. old boy in NY. He is currently being held for evaluation for the second time this year. It looks like it may be adolescence onset. He has always been a student on the high honor...

Okay, so it just so happens that my difficult child and I had a talk last night about her friends and how easily things can spiral out of control at her age. I am sure most of you have read my post about our night last night, and another thing that my sources have warned me about is that these new friends...

The therapist and I are concerned that difficult child is exhibiting more antisocial personality traits than Asperger's. We can't tell if it's the medications (he's been off of Abilify for 10 days, and he had smoked pot, so he had some awful behaviors where the two drugs mixed) or if it's typical teen X 100, or if he's...

I don't know if difficult child 1 and her horrible attitude is due to teenage hormones or if she is starting to destabilize. I know one thing and that is that this year she is hanging out with a bunch of boys and her language has become awful! I believe these new friends of hers are influencing some of her...

just want to make a long story short as I need advice or at least have an idea of what to expect. My son freaks out when he doesn't get his way to the point where he is calling me names and screaming at me. About two weeks he was Baker Acted for attacking me. Yesterday he got mad at me...

I'm a single mom of two boys, the oldest is out on his own. My difficult child, son 16, was just diagnosed with severe ODD. It's just me and my difficult child. Until March, my difficult child was my easy child. I thought we had a good relationship, could talk about anything but his romantic life. He did well in school planned on going to...

Morning everyone! Looking for some thoughts on this one~ OK, before the question, bear with me through the set-up: difficult child tends to not be able to make or keep friends - the ones he does make, the friendships usually do not last more than week due to difficult child being too controlling, raging in front of...

Our difficult child son can be defiant, and thinks that rules and laws don't apply to him. We know that he has tried alcohol and weed already. I read lots of text messages on my son's phone last night, and he was sending texts about selling weed to his friends. He was even bragging about how he has a...

I have not posted in quite awhile. I hate to post because it seems like my son is so much worse than others and I feel so helpless. difficult child was charged with assault and battery on me, destruction of property for scratching another kids car, and graffiti. Kicked out of school and sent to...

if they're going to come in for your kid>? Sigh..... that was my day, but they did not come to our house thankfully, but now after last weekend (caught him with drugs) I sit here wondering.......... It's as if I have no choices, throw him to the wolves (JV justice system) or the Lions (The...

and substance abuse- Is it that substance abuse causes mood disorders in families or is it that substance abusers sometimes are self-medicating a pre-existing mood disorder? Or is it some other connection?

Not sure why I'm even thinking about this but I have been so I decided to ask all of you Brilliant parents. How old was your difficult child when you first realized something was "not right" and what made you think that?

Hi. I am so glad I found this forum! I want to apoligize in advance if this turns into a book. Ok. A little background... I have 3 kids; 21, 15, 13. (trying to remember the abbreviations here). Last week I would have said that my problem is with my 15yr. old, it seems now I have 2...

Hi everyone, I've been a lurker on this list for many years. Until about two months ago I always felt that I was "lucky" enough to have only moderate behavior issues with my son (15) rather than the severe ones I read about on this list. (Although I now realize that I may have been in...

As everyone knows, I had a daughter who abused meth and ADHD medications were a big part of it. She would put the drugs into a pillcrusher and they'd snort them alone or with other drugs. It was her main drug of choice before she quit. Fast forwards... I have a lovely thirteen year old daughter who is...

I never had a typical teen girl, as almost everyone here knows. My last daughter had taken her first toke (is that the word?) of pot at age 12, but she didn't have intercourse until she was 17 (as I share this, using these words, I am blushing like a beet):raspberry-tounge:. But, as I've said before, she...

Hello all. I hope everyone is doing well. I haven't been on in a few days as my life has been chaotic!!! My daughter is still driving us all crazy. She is completely out of control at this point. She hasn't been on her medications in quite some time and it shows. She is extremely irritable, we...

well, its probably been 3 years since I posted anything here. Back then my difficult child was 12, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), ADHD, ODD. At this point, he's 15, obviously still the same diagnosis, a couple added on since then, hypomania being one of them. His problems have intensified so much that its hard to even know where...

First of all, I searched all over the net for a messageboard where I could get some good advice on this situation, and am very happy I stumbled across your board, as it seems like a really great place to post and get advice. So here goes. Im a single mother of a just 15 year old son, freshman...