support for parents of mentally ill adults

Hello, I just joined this site and still learning how to navigate and find what I need. I am looking for other parents who have had to deal with oppositional/defiant behaviors. My son just turned 18 and had a psychiatric evaluation with diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder. Ive been reading and...

Hey All I'm new to the board. I wish I knew all the abbreviations being used, but I don't so I hope I'm on the right board. This is concerning my 19 year old son and his girlfriend. History: Lived with an emotional, mental and physically abusive husband until my son was 10. I finally got...

Most of you know I work at an outpatient Mental Health facility in the H.R. department. Wingnut has come here in the past and I used to have it set up with the office manager to let me know when she is scheduled to come in, because she would have to walk right past my office, and I do not want...

difficult child called last night. He has been calling more often lately but, oddly enough, seemed to have to go before I could come to the phone. Even last night, he talked to husband for an amazingly long time before talking to me. I didn't think much about that, as husband always said difficult child sounded good and...

difficult child daughter is angrier lately. She is making decisions that seem rational until the conversation deepens and the reasoning behind the decisions is exposed. I have been thinking how to write this post. I don't know what I need from you. I need to rethink my way out of denial. I need to see...

I am new to this forum, so bear with me. I have a 26 year old daughter, who I have recently found out used my credit card to purchase online video games. She lies as easily as she breathes. She is still living at home, working part-time. She pays her cell phone, car payment and car insurance. I...

Hello everyone. I posted here awhile back wondering about my daughter being in depression. She is 38yrs. old. Just heard from her hubby that she was tentatively diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. However, she of course doesn't think anything is wrong with her and that it's everyone else's...

daughter in law's mother literally attacked her...and of course she is pregnant. Night before last, daughter in law came over to our house to see young difficult child. She left the 2 grandbabies at home with her mother without asking her mother to take care of them. She also took her mother's car since her inspection...

This is only directed to myself and only myself...I have read so many of your stories on here but we ourselves only know the crannies of the details on our lives. I have thought and thought about this and here is my conclusion on 'mine" - All this, the problem I am having with my son, is at...

GFGmom shared "the secret" with easy child/difficult child yesterday. She told easy child/difficult child that difficult child (now 19) didn't want me to know about it "because I might blame his Mom". :frowny: She has threatened to Baker Act him for years...every time he loses his cool which happens when he doesn't have or take his medications. I...

I've been thinking about you and your family. The 20th or 21st is in my mind as Rob's appointment. How's it going? Am I remembering correctly? DDD

Last night I was at work (soooo interesting) and husband took difficult child to her apt. with- the therapist. Update: difficult child has been doing a tiny bit better (excuse me...while I cross myself and light a candle). She is working with a social worker trying to get a job. This has been interesting. Even with- assistance...

Newbie here with a 26 yo difficult child 1 dual dxd severely physically disabled kid. Had to share my latest little trip to take him back to The City where he lives (100 miles away from us!!!) cause I know you will all appreciate the irony here. The only reason he was visiting us was because he had to...

This was in Dear Abby today. Thought some of you might be interested. Confidential To My Readers: An estimated 320,000 people who suffer from severe mental illness (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression with psychotic features) are incarcerated in our jails and prisons today...

Hi everyone. I have an update on my difficult child. She did NOT put the dog in the pound. Guess it was just a manipulation tactic. She called husband yesterday. Told him she was no longer employed. She threw away a job making $28,000/year plus excellent benefits at one of the "best 100 places in the...

Hello friends. I am having a very difficult time coping tonight. My 21 yr old difficult child son recently moved 2 states away to the state we used to live in, and where he went to high school. This was supposed to be the move that would finally improve things for him. He tried living with me, then my...

I am an idiot. Why, why, why do I harbor hope that this will get any better? I had posted that the prison visit with difficult child 1 didn't go well. I sent him a letter and then left to go out of town on a retreat. (it was wonderful) Now I am back and within days am in the full throes of emotional turmoil...

I have a 21 yr old son who will not get a job and will not seek help. Let me give you some history. When he was born he had the cord around his neck, was blue. (Don’t know if that means anything but I'm not leaving nothing out) He was a thriving baby and met all stages of growing. When he was in...

I am a 49 year old male who is retired Army. My son is 19 and failing at life. I gave up my army career to stay in contact with him and his brother, spent over $30,000 on airplane tickets over the years and fought an expensive international custody battle to have them join me at age 16 which...

I have a 20-year-old daughter who is about to drive me over the edge. I'm so glad I found this forum. She has been difficult since about 12- refused to do schoolwork, sexually promiscuous, defiant, skipped school, you name it. At 14 she and her stepmother really got into it and she threatened to...