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Adult son 33 is homeless, Im Mom, 57, trying so hard to detach, not enable...
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<blockquote data-quote="ANewLife4Me" data-source="post: 764561" data-attributes="member: 32799"><p>Hello JoesMa, my daughter suffers with schizophrenia as well and it does make us parents exhausted! I read a lot and have learned schizophrenia MUST be controlled with medication or else these behaviors will never end. My daughter has refused medication and therapy, she hears voices and talks back to them. She does irrational things and is currently in jail, again, because of what she did. My husband and I fear her as she can become violent so living with us after she is released from jail is not an option. After 10 years of back and forth, we made the decision to let her go. The 2 books under my about helped me greatly to see that I not only enabled but am also co-dependent on my children. It’s not easy, it’s heartbreaking but, as was brought out in Setting Boundaries with our adult children, that we are trying to force what we want our children’s lives to be on them BUT!!! it’s not what they want for themselves. This was eye opening for me. My therapist tells me I have done all that I can and instead of putting the energy on her, to put it on me. I became very depressed/almost suicidal when receiving the jail call in November 2023. I am just to the point today where I finally went grocery shopping and had the urge to cry but…..I did it. We have to think more of ourselves. Please consider the 2 books in my about section, they really helped me. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ANewLife4Me, post: 764561, member: 32799"] Hello JoesMa, my daughter suffers with schizophrenia as well and it does make us parents exhausted! I read a lot and have learned schizophrenia MUST be controlled with medication or else these behaviors will never end. My daughter has refused medication and therapy, she hears voices and talks back to them. She does irrational things and is currently in jail, again, because of what she did. My husband and I fear her as she can become violent so living with us after she is released from jail is not an option. After 10 years of back and forth, we made the decision to let her go. The 2 books under my about helped me greatly to see that I not only enabled but am also co-dependent on my children. It’s not easy, it’s heartbreaking but, as was brought out in Setting Boundaries with our adult children, that we are trying to force what we want our children’s lives to be on them BUT!!! it’s not what they want for themselves. This was eye opening for me. My therapist tells me I have done all that I can and instead of putting the energy on her, to put it on me. I became very depressed/almost suicidal when receiving the jail call in November 2023. I am just to the point today where I finally went grocery shopping and had the urge to cry but…..I did it. We have to think more of ourselves. Please consider the 2 books in my about section, they really helped me. ❤️ [/QUOTE]
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