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<blockquote data-quote="startingfresh" data-source="post: 733836" data-attributes="member: 22380"><p>I will cautiously add my son's success story here! Its been 3 and half months since we finally got tough and made our son leave our home. He was smoking weed regularly and to excess. He refused to follow any of our house rules and regularly exposed siblings to that and the chaos created by that. He has been sober since moving out and supports himself. He has always wanted to do things his way and without anyone telling him what to do. He is thriving on being in charge of himself and knowing that he needs to keep his job to have his freedom. If he messes up, he can't channel the blame my way. He got himself a very good job that gives him so much confidence and self worth. Before this we were always working on that one thing that would help him. Support in school, tutors, therapy , a new medication, partial hospitalizations, wilderness therapy, getting the law involved, etc. I spend his life between 15 and 18 spinning and in total chaos reaching reaching to find something that would snap him back into "life". And it just enraged him. I don't know that I would do anything different because I was watching this talented, happy, kind soul smoke his life away. Hard to believe "just marijuana" was responsible for all that. But when you are spending most of your waking moments heavily stoned and not facing life, it gets awful pretty quick. Stepping back was very and continues to be very difficult for me. He is so young, still a teenager. Yet I can absolutely say it is the ONLY thing that worked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="startingfresh, post: 733836, member: 22380"] I will cautiously add my son's success story here! Its been 3 and half months since we finally got tough and made our son leave our home. He was smoking weed regularly and to excess. He refused to follow any of our house rules and regularly exposed siblings to that and the chaos created by that. He has been sober since moving out and supports himself. He has always wanted to do things his way and without anyone telling him what to do. He is thriving on being in charge of himself and knowing that he needs to keep his job to have his freedom. If he messes up, he can't channel the blame my way. He got himself a very good job that gives him so much confidence and self worth. Before this we were always working on that one thing that would help him. Support in school, tutors, therapy , a new medication, partial hospitalizations, wilderness therapy, getting the law involved, etc. I spend his life between 15 and 18 spinning and in total chaos reaching reaching to find something that would snap him back into "life". And it just enraged him. I don't know that I would do anything different because I was watching this talented, happy, kind soul smoke his life away. Hard to believe "just marijuana" was responsible for all that. But when you are spending most of your waking moments heavily stoned and not facing life, it gets awful pretty quick. Stepping back was very and continues to be very difficult for me. He is so young, still a teenager. Yet I can absolutely say it is the ONLY thing that worked. [/QUOTE]
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