support for parents of mentally ill adults

My other posts asked how to prepare for difficult child to come out of treatment... I understand that he needs to ask for support and that I shouldn't offer him to come here. And trust me, I am not looking for him to come here and to be honest am selfishly and not wanting to deal with it at that level...

Sadly, I'm regressing. Detachment 101 is not working. The Serenity Prayer is not working. Sleep is not happening. All I do is fret and worry what is happening to her and how she will survive in this world with no education and no skills. I've suggested she look into Job Corps. No...

Hello all, I haven’t posted here in a very long time, but I am on the site every day and read all of your stories and words of wisdom. A little background…..my son is my only child. He has had mental health & behavioral issues going back to around age 5. Drugs came into the picture about 4-5...

Ok well to make a VERY long story short. I have a difficult child that came home in January - he got a 15 day kick out plan and now his juvy record is sealed. If I knew then what I know now I would never had started this bs in the first place and maybe things would have turned out a lot different. We were...

After not hearing from young difficult child for several days last week husband and I finally got a visit from him on Saturday afternoon. He was telling us that he had been in Rehab for a few days and that he had been attending AA meetings as well. What he "really" wanted was for husband and I to go pay the rent on...

I came across this site by accident just a couple of days ago and the advice, kindness and support shown on here has helped me more than I can say. I've never posted on a forum before and until now I just didn't realise that there were parents like me around. I can find no sites that are UK...

I know, I know all these years of me saying "you love the kid but hate the behavior" blah blah give me my hypocrite award tomorrow right now I just need to B!#CH! or I will explode! My youngest has had a horrible time growing up in her sisters shadow, going thru a school district the younger...

Hello all. I am a new member here and and grateful for the wise words and experience I have browsed the last few hours. I am a stepmother-although we never used that term I was just Mom to a 35 year old woman. I have parented her since she was 5. She had suffered abuse before coming to live...

My daughter is almost 22 .We've never had the best relationship.Whenever I tried to give her good advice she would always do the opposite of whatever I said.probably just to prove me wrong which didn't happen often.She's been with her current boyfriend almost 2 years and living with him the past...

Based on my own observation (mostly socially or with my dad's former addiction etc. counsellors, only tdocs I have ever seen have been rather sane and ordinary human beings) and stories difficult child is currently entertaining me with. He is trying to find a therapist and has gone through lots of websites...

I have a ss that is our difficult child. I don't know all the abbreviations yet but am learning. I have been with my partner for 4 years now and difficult child is 18 now. He has had trouble from a very young age that his mom has been dealing with. Latest diagnosis is psychosis non specified he has had audio and...

in Jail! Yep, young difficult child is in Jail. Found out while husband easy child her friend and I were all in Las Vegas this past week. He has been charged with Reckless Child Endangerment. It is a Felony of course. Don't know if this will be counted as his 3rd Felony or not. The first 2 were for spitting at...

soo my brother, the one who facebooked about lovely easy child...... called me while i was at the neuro this a.m. gotta love that little man! :) soooo easy child has left the state apparentely, with her friend to vermont. whatever...... she also has been posting a bunch of junk about sex on her facebook...

Ok I am new here but have had years of hell behind me with this child. She is supersweet but UGH! Her BiPolar (BP) led her to premature promiscuity which led to a baby at 16. Fine, we helped her but then her mental condition finally hit the floor, was hospitalized a few times, we took baby into temp...

This will be a little lengthy, but here goes. I posted almost two months ago regarding my daughter and received some very encouraging responses. We had just found out that she was pregnant and I wanted to update you on her situation. I don’t get to post very often since I don’t have a computer...

I found out today that difficult child has lied about us in every way to his counselor at the outpatient rehab program. In every way. I am so angry I can't feel. I'm numb. I dropped in to chat with one of the counselors while difficult child was in his private appointment and I was waiting for him (as usual). The...

It's been a long time since I've posted. difficult child is still mentally ill...I still am trying to deal with the heartbreak, the betrayal (she was undoubtedly the one behind my home being entered and all of my gold/diamond jewelry and my husband's camera being stolen), still dealing with the...

I'm been lurking for years because our family is similar to many of yours (see sig line), now writing for ideas on one of the more typical challenges of parenting, complicated by difficult child-ness. Holden (ok, he's not quite that complicated - but close!) will be 21 in February and is planning for marry...

About 7 months after adoption at age 6, our 21 daughter-difficult child was diagnosed in 1995 as having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). There was little-to-no information readily available for parents aside from what the state provided adoption counselor said (which was tremendously helpful considering!!!!) First three years with...

I got a phone call from the social worker at the day shelter about 3:15 yesterday to say that difficult child had been stabbed by his girlfriend in a parking lot across the street from the shelter. The girlfriend ran away, and they called the EMTs to take difficult child to the hospital. I went to the hospital, as did easy child and...