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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 746195" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>He is NOT a psychopath. I know he is not. Just let it go, B. The diagnoses will not help you. Please go step by step. The future gets decided by present moments.</p><p></p><p>Please listen to L. Give him a chance to change. Please don't write him off.</p><p>This is the most ridiculous nonsense I can recall hearing lately. I won't say ever. But I feel like it. This MD is pure nuts. Why would you take seriously anything he says?</p><p>Nobody is telling you to bring him back YET. I am glad she agrees.</p><p>Poor L.</p><p></p><p>Look B. This is step by step. Please try to speak with your friend about Argentina, to see if it is an option, or not.</p><p></p><p>In light of what L. said, we should consider the possibility that part of his behavior and symptoms are a response to trauma. Really. I do not think you are helping yourself or him by seeing all of this through a prism of personality disorders such as antisocial personality disorder or narcissism. He is too young to be diagnosed as such. And nobody responsible or competent would ever think in these terms let alone diagnose such a thing. Let alone speak to a parent along these lines. Let alone say that any treatment, whether pharmacological or clinical would <em>never work.</em> This is pure idiocy and irresponsibility, let alone malpractice.</p><p></p><p>Is there a way that you can suspend belief? That is, try to be open to what emerges over time? Which is to live one day at a time? With boundaries and with love? Believing that you and your husband and L. as a family will be able to sustain each other and be okay? </p><p></p><p>Sometimes the worst thing does not happen. Can we take this one day at a time? I think this is time for love for L. Over all else. He is NOT coming home today, or next week or next month. Maybe you will decide that he cannot come home at all. I don't know.</p><p></p><p> He is safe to LOVE.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 746195, member: 18958"] He is NOT a psychopath. I know he is not. Just let it go, B. The diagnoses will not help you. Please go step by step. The future gets decided by present moments. Please listen to L. Give him a chance to change. Please don't write him off. This is the most ridiculous nonsense I can recall hearing lately. I won't say ever. But I feel like it. This MD is pure nuts. Why would you take seriously anything he says? Nobody is telling you to bring him back YET. I am glad she agrees. Poor L. Look B. This is step by step. Please try to speak with your friend about Argentina, to see if it is an option, or not. In light of what L. said, we should consider the possibility that part of his behavior and symptoms are a response to trauma. Really. I do not think you are helping yourself or him by seeing all of this through a prism of personality disorders such as antisocial personality disorder or narcissism. He is too young to be diagnosed as such. And nobody responsible or competent would ever think in these terms let alone diagnose such a thing. Let alone speak to a parent along these lines. Let alone say that any treatment, whether pharmacological or clinical would [I]never work.[/I] This is pure idiocy and irresponsibility, let alone malpractice. Is there a way that you can suspend belief? That is, try to be open to what emerges over time? Which is to live one day at a time? With boundaries and with love? Believing that you and your husband and L. as a family will be able to sustain each other and be okay? Sometimes the worst thing does not happen. Can we take this one day at a time? I think this is time for love for L. Over all else. He is NOT coming home today, or next week or next month. Maybe you will decide that he cannot come home at all. I don't know. He is safe to LOVE. [/QUOTE]
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