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<blockquote data-quote="Sam3" data-source="post: 718147" data-attributes="member: 19290"><p>He'll be 19 and should have started college next month. He was sober for almost two years after we put him in a residential program (unwillingly) for a couple months when he was almost 17, and then he willingly went to an outpatient follow up program and switched to online high school to stay with the sober crowd instead of his old peers. Long story, but he's now renouncing 12 stepping and hasn't been sober since the beginning of the year, with a lot of cheerleading from new peers, and sundry ill effects including stagnation and couch surfing for a few months. </p><p></p><p>He's recently back home and we're waiting and watching and thinking of next steps. In the meantime, he gets no money from us but we have made clear that we would back anything positive he wants to do to even if that doesn't mean 4 year college. Gym membership, meditation, detox, culinary school, job assistance. He has deferred college for a quarter. It remains to be seen whether he will finish up his high school credits and go back to therapy as he has indicated he is willing to do. This all sounds grim, I know, but I am thankful that he had all the treatment he had. He realized the benefits of CBT and DBT. He knows good support is out there and he can't defraud himself, even if he doesn't want to go back to AA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sam3, post: 718147, member: 19290"] He'll be 19 and should have started college next month. He was sober for almost two years after we put him in a residential program (unwillingly) for a couple months when he was almost 17, and then he willingly went to an outpatient follow up program and switched to online high school to stay with the sober crowd instead of his old peers. Long story, but he's now renouncing 12 stepping and hasn't been sober since the beginning of the year, with a lot of cheerleading from new peers, and sundry ill effects including stagnation and couch surfing for a few months. He's recently back home and we're waiting and watching and thinking of next steps. In the meantime, he gets no money from us but we have made clear that we would back anything positive he wants to do to even if that doesn't mean 4 year college. Gym membership, meditation, detox, culinary school, job assistance. He has deferred college for a quarter. It remains to be seen whether he will finish up his high school credits and go back to therapy as he has indicated he is willing to do. This all sounds grim, I know, but I am thankful that he had all the treatment he had. He realized the benefits of CBT and DBT. He knows good support is out there and he can't defraud himself, even if he doesn't want to go back to AA. [/QUOTE]
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