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<blockquote data-quote="ColleenB" data-source="post: 718378" data-attributes="member: 19887"><p>I have been thinking of you and wondering how things are going. When my son was living with us and using at his worst he would often get upset about things that made no sense to me. That is the biggest change we notice in our son, he no longer gets angry with us, at all. It may be due to him not living with us but he actually comes to visit almost daily and contacts us also. It makes me hopeful he is trying to be clean.</p><p></p><p>I think my son has mental health issues that have led to drug abuse. But when they are using it's hard to see beyond the drug use and anger. I do think it's the addiction that makes them angry.</p><p></p><p>We are away this weekend and trying to enjoy each other's company without talking too much about son.</p><p></p><p>You talk about the movie Glass Castle, and how these two broken people raised good kids... that is something I really struggle with. That I somehow failed somewhere in my parenting. Even my boys both dropping out of university track and choosing college instead. I am actually very happy and hopeful for both of their chosen paths ( older son in art school with younger son in forestry school) but to others I know they view both as "less than" university. I no longer do that... both as my experience the last few years in high school guidance and as my own life experience. But.... I know the judgements are still there and every once in a while I feel some sadness or shame?</p><p></p><p>I think I have changed so much in this journey into the hell of addiction.....and not all the changes are negative</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ColleenB, post: 718378, member: 19887"] I have been thinking of you and wondering how things are going. When my son was living with us and using at his worst he would often get upset about things that made no sense to me. That is the biggest change we notice in our son, he no longer gets angry with us, at all. It may be due to him not living with us but he actually comes to visit almost daily and contacts us also. It makes me hopeful he is trying to be clean. I think my son has mental health issues that have led to drug abuse. But when they are using it's hard to see beyond the drug use and anger. I do think it's the addiction that makes them angry. We are away this weekend and trying to enjoy each other's company without talking too much about son. You talk about the movie Glass Castle, and how these two broken people raised good kids... that is something I really struggle with. That I somehow failed somewhere in my parenting. Even my boys both dropping out of university track and choosing college instead. I am actually very happy and hopeful for both of their chosen paths ( older son in art school with younger son in forestry school) but to others I know they view both as "less than" university. I no longer do that... both as my experience the last few years in high school guidance and as my own life experience. But.... I know the judgements are still there and every once in a while I feel some sadness or shame? I think I have changed so much in this journey into the hell of addiction.....and not all the changes are negative [/QUOTE]
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