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<blockquote data-quote="RN0441" data-source="post: 758843" data-attributes="member: 15032"><p>Helpless:</p><p></p><p>I hear your struggle and despair. I felt that too because nothing helped our son. The resources were there for him but HE was not willing to open his heart and mind to them so they may as well not have been there. He just went through the routine until he could get out and do whatever he wanted. Wash, Rinse, Repeat</p><p></p><p>I remember being so happy with all the wonderful people he had been surrounded with at rehabs and sober livings he had attended when we first sent him away to Florida when he was 20. I felt finally THEY'D get through to him. They had been former addicts themselves and on the wrong track. People that are either former drug users or former SCREW UPS are some of the best people I have EVER met in my life!</p><p></p><p>At one point he was literally in a beautiful home, more like a mansion really that was a rehab then new apartments not far away for sober living. The man that ran the program was a former addict who had gotten sober on his own when he one day realized he just didn't want to live that way anymore. He was a very impressive young man, clean cut (actually meticulous with himself) and running the program while working on his master's degree. No one ever would have guessed that HE was anything like my son. He told he he was even worse than my son!! That program did not help him either. We threw up our hands. We did not understand WHY he did not want to change. That man did tell me that my son was very smart and he felt that he would be okay eventually....</p><p></p><p>I do believe that each and every intervention/person/program helped move him ever so slightly in the right direction though. I have to believe that all our efforts were not in vain. Someday I will ask him. I just can't go there right now. I don't know when I will be able to have a real talk with him about his past. </p><p></p><p>We can not make any of your decisions for you. This is the hardest thing ever but I do offer you my support and prayers!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RN0441, post: 758843, member: 15032"] Helpless: I hear your struggle and despair. I felt that too because nothing helped our son. The resources were there for him but HE was not willing to open his heart and mind to them so they may as well not have been there. He just went through the routine until he could get out and do whatever he wanted. Wash, Rinse, Repeat I remember being so happy with all the wonderful people he had been surrounded with at rehabs and sober livings he had attended when we first sent him away to Florida when he was 20. I felt finally THEY'D get through to him. They had been former addicts themselves and on the wrong track. People that are either former drug users or former SCREW UPS are some of the best people I have EVER met in my life! At one point he was literally in a beautiful home, more like a mansion really that was a rehab then new apartments not far away for sober living. The man that ran the program was a former addict who had gotten sober on his own when he one day realized he just didn't want to live that way anymore. He was a very impressive young man, clean cut (actually meticulous with himself) and running the program while working on his master's degree. No one ever would have guessed that HE was anything like my son. He told he he was even worse than my son!! That program did not help him either. We threw up our hands. We did not understand WHY he did not want to change. That man did tell me that my son was very smart and he felt that he would be okay eventually.... I do believe that each and every intervention/person/program helped move him ever so slightly in the right direction though. I have to believe that all our efforts were not in vain. Someday I will ask him. I just can't go there right now. I don't know when I will be able to have a real talk with him about his past. We can not make any of your decisions for you. This is the hardest thing ever but I do offer you my support and prayers! [/QUOTE]
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