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My 20 yr old clinically depressed son refuses help
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 655119" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hi there.</p><p></p><p>First of all you answered an old thread and you'll get more of a response if you start a new one of your own. People will not know that somebody new is here. Click on top on "new topic" and started!!! It's nice to have you here, although I'm sorry you felt the need to come...</p><p></p><p>The short answer is, you can't do anything for an eighteen year old and there is nowhere to send him. If he is a danger to himself or others, you can call 911 and he could be admitted for observation in a psychiatric hospital. It is rarely a long term stay.</p><p></p><p>By eighteen, we have no legal rights to our children. All you can do is hope he decides to get help because, since he is mentally ill, only HE can take care of his illness and make himself better. I hope he isn't using drugs too.</p><p></p><p>Sounds like your whole family could use help and therapy. I recommend you and your husband go for serious help and the younger daughter too. You can not make your eighteen year old son go, but it would be helpful to him if he would. You can take are of yourself, but you can't control eighteen year old. You can't make him happy either. I have endured a lifetime of fighting depression, but I went for help early on and take very good care of myself. I was in bad shape. If I did it, your son can do, but he needs to do it himself, like I did. Nobody will accept a parental call about an eighteen year old. By that age, he has to want to get better and get the help for it. Otherwise, he is choosing to stay sick. It takes more than just medication to help people prone to clinical depression, but t is highly treatable for those who get treatment.</p><p></p><p>Sounds like you could ALL stand to see psychiatarists and get evaluated. If you are depressed and anxious, you will not be any good for anyone, including yourself and you matter too. Nobody can help a legal adult except the legal adult helping himself/herself. But there is lots of hope if you individually seek out good treatment! Try a psychiatrist, not a therapist or even a psychologist. Therapists and psychologists can not diagnose correctly...they don't have the training. They can't medicate either and the rest of you may need antidepressants. Even if 18 won't take medications, that doesn't mean you, your husband and daughter should follow his destructive lead. Maybe your example of getting help will motivate him. Either way, it is all on him now. Eighteen is the magic number where we no longer have any authority. Was your son always this way? Do you suspect drug use? Has he always had problems?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 655119, member: 1550"] Hi there. First of all you answered an old thread and you'll get more of a response if you start a new one of your own. People will not know that somebody new is here. Click on top on "new topic" and started!!! It's nice to have you here, although I'm sorry you felt the need to come... The short answer is, you can't do anything for an eighteen year old and there is nowhere to send him. If he is a danger to himself or others, you can call 911 and he could be admitted for observation in a psychiatric hospital. It is rarely a long term stay. By eighteen, we have no legal rights to our children. All you can do is hope he decides to get help because, since he is mentally ill, only HE can take care of his illness and make himself better. I hope he isn't using drugs too. Sounds like your whole family could use help and therapy. I recommend you and your husband go for serious help and the younger daughter too. You can not make your eighteen year old son go, but it would be helpful to him if he would. You can take are of yourself, but you can't control eighteen year old. You can't make him happy either. I have endured a lifetime of fighting depression, but I went for help early on and take very good care of myself. I was in bad shape. If I did it, your son can do, but he needs to do it himself, like I did. Nobody will accept a parental call about an eighteen year old. By that age, he has to want to get better and get the help for it. Otherwise, he is choosing to stay sick. It takes more than just medication to help people prone to clinical depression, but t is highly treatable for those who get treatment. Sounds like you could ALL stand to see psychiatarists and get evaluated. If you are depressed and anxious, you will not be any good for anyone, including yourself and you matter too. Nobody can help a legal adult except the legal adult helping himself/herself. But there is lots of hope if you individually seek out good treatment! Try a psychiatrist, not a therapist or even a psychologist. Therapists and psychologists can not diagnose correctly...they don't have the training. They can't medicate either and the rest of you may need antidepressants. Even if 18 won't take medications, that doesn't mean you, your husband and daughter should follow his destructive lead. Maybe your example of getting help will motivate him. Either way, it is all on him now. Eighteen is the magic number where we no longer have any authority. Was your son always this way? Do you suspect drug use? Has he always had problems? [/QUOTE]
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