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Feeling hopeless for my adult homeless son
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 653991" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Annie...then there is nothing more you can do except hope that one day he is taken to a place that realizes he needs to live in a group home. Of course, our legal system won't make him stay there, even if he is psychotic and doesn't know how to help himself or he thinks his medication is poison so he stops it. Or he forgets. Mental illness that includes psychosis can affect your memory. The system is failing your son, not you. You can not be in danger and he is not going to let you help him.</p><p></p><p>I feel the most sorry, I think, for those whose adult children are mentally ill and thrown to the dogs. Often, they do not believe or know they are ill, I know. I would try going to The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill so you can understand him and why you can't help him and meet other parents in the same boat. You could make some new friends and feel lighter in yourself because you truly have done all you can do. </p><p></p><p>I saw a very sad program on MSNBC's Lock Up, which is on every weekend at night. It shows prison life. One show was all about how prisons have become the new psychiatric hospitals and it showed a floor of mentally ill prisoners and how the rather compassionate people there tried to help them. But, after all, they are deemed prisoners and are still treated like prsioners. Still, they had medication, meals, and a place to sleep and could talk to somebody if they needed to.</p><p></p><p>We are in very sad shape if our prisons are our psychiatric hospitals. I feel terrible for both you and your son, but do not blame yourself for a societal problem that you can't change and do please go for support or therapy so that you can cope better and still live a good life, even though your son is struggling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 653991, member: 1550"] Annie...then there is nothing more you can do except hope that one day he is taken to a place that realizes he needs to live in a group home. Of course, our legal system won't make him stay there, even if he is psychotic and doesn't know how to help himself or he thinks his medication is poison so he stops it. Or he forgets. Mental illness that includes psychosis can affect your memory. The system is failing your son, not you. You can not be in danger and he is not going to let you help him. I feel the most sorry, I think, for those whose adult children are mentally ill and thrown to the dogs. Often, they do not believe or know they are ill, I know. I would try going to The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill so you can understand him and why you can't help him and meet other parents in the same boat. You could make some new friends and feel lighter in yourself because you truly have done all you can do. I saw a very sad program on MSNBC's Lock Up, which is on every weekend at night. It shows prison life. One show was all about how prisons have become the new psychiatric hospitals and it showed a floor of mentally ill prisoners and how the rather compassionate people there tried to help them. But, after all, they are deemed prisoners and are still treated like prsioners. Still, they had medication, meals, and a place to sleep and could talk to somebody if they needed to. We are in very sad shape if our prisons are our psychiatric hospitals. I feel terrible for both you and your son, but do not blame yourself for a societal problem that you can't change and do please go for support or therapy so that you can cope better and still live a good life, even though your son is struggling. [/QUOTE]
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