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<blockquote data-quote="Quicksand" data-source="post: 674183" data-attributes="member: 19405"><p>It's midnight here and just going to bed. My son went into detox Tuesday at 7pm. He has called and said how they were trying to give him seroquil, Ativan and suboxone. He doesn't want any medications. He said everyone is a drug addict and has no intention of getting clean and that he hates it there. He said they estimated his stay would be 4 days. I went to visit tonight to have dinner with him and then family only meetings after. Everything was fine... For a minute. He got extremely angry and said he wants to leave because everyone was high on suboxone and he didn't belong there, he just wants to do 12 steps and go to dialectical behavior therapy. He said he told the psychiatrist some deep, personal things and the guy just offered depakote. He sad he was leaving.I asked if he could just hold on until tomorrow and dad and I would both be up there to see him and that we could get a family therapy meeting for all of us tomorrow. He shouted at me that I'm psycho and don't listen and then he took the books that I had brought for him and threw them down the hall and stormed off. I talked to a nurse guy who said he would check on him and I went to the meetings. When the first meeting let out, I talked to the nurse again and he said he was fine. I went to my next parent meeting which was so helpful that I left feeling better because his behavior, I learned was normal for coming off of drugs. He hasn't used in probably 5 days, based on what he's said. </p><p>When I got in the car, looked at phone and lots of calls from him and a voicemail that said he was leaving. He had also called my husband and told him he was going to leave. We tried to tell him to just hold on it was almost over but he wouldn't listen. He checked himself out.</p><p>He called me and wanted me to pick him up, I said no. You haven't given us a chance to talk or think about it at all. So, he took a cab here and by the time he got here we had already paid for a room at a local motel. He was really angry - WHY CANT I STAY WHERE I BELONG- WITH MY PARENTS??!!!!! This stuff is so hard.. Trying not to trigger him and trying not to get baited into circular arguments or be manipulated. We just stayed calm and said: - you decided that you aren't staying at rehab and this was so sudden that we aren't prepared to have you here right now. He claims he's going to a meeting in the morning. I'm just praying he stays in the room tonight and actually goes tomorrow. I gave him the dbt therapists number and he said he'd call for an appointment tomorrow. He claims the detox was "triggering" because people were "shooting up in the bathroom" - that sounds like bs to me!</p><p>Man oh man this is difficult stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quicksand, post: 674183, member: 19405"] It's midnight here and just going to bed. My son went into detox Tuesday at 7pm. He has called and said how they were trying to give him seroquil, Ativan and suboxone. He doesn't want any medications. He said everyone is a drug addict and has no intention of getting clean and that he hates it there. He said they estimated his stay would be 4 days. I went to visit tonight to have dinner with him and then family only meetings after. Everything was fine... For a minute. He got extremely angry and said he wants to leave because everyone was high on suboxone and he didn't belong there, he just wants to do 12 steps and go to dialectical behavior therapy. He said he told the psychiatrist some deep, personal things and the guy just offered depakote. He sad he was leaving.I asked if he could just hold on until tomorrow and dad and I would both be up there to see him and that we could get a family therapy meeting for all of us tomorrow. He shouted at me that I'm psycho and don't listen and then he took the books that I had brought for him and threw them down the hall and stormed off. I talked to a nurse guy who said he would check on him and I went to the meetings. When the first meeting let out, I talked to the nurse again and he said he was fine. I went to my next parent meeting which was so helpful that I left feeling better because his behavior, I learned was normal for coming off of drugs. He hasn't used in probably 5 days, based on what he's said. When I got in the car, looked at phone and lots of calls from him and a voicemail that said he was leaving. He had also called my husband and told him he was going to leave. We tried to tell him to just hold on it was almost over but he wouldn't listen. He checked himself out. He called me and wanted me to pick him up, I said no. You haven't given us a chance to talk or think about it at all. So, he took a cab here and by the time he got here we had already paid for a room at a local motel. He was really angry - WHY CANT I STAY WHERE I BELONG- WITH MY PARENTS??!!!!! This stuff is so hard.. Trying not to trigger him and trying not to get baited into circular arguments or be manipulated. We just stayed calm and said: - you decided that you aren't staying at rehab and this was so sudden that we aren't prepared to have you here right now. He claims he's going to a meeting in the morning. I'm just praying he stays in the room tonight and actually goes tomorrow. I gave him the dbt therapists number and he said he'd call for an appointment tomorrow. He claims the detox was "triggering" because people were "shooting up in the bathroom" - that sounds like bs to me! Man oh man this is difficult stuff. [/QUOTE]
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