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Son is heroin addict but needs psychiatric help too
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 702072" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Unfortunately you did all you can. Your child or not, he is a man now and will only get better if he decides to do it. Part of helping to motivate them is very hard to do...it is to refuse to coddle them. I had to toss out my drug addict daughter at 19 and contribute no car and no money. I thought she was mentally ill too. And I felt like a horrible person but I had two young kids too. And nothing we did was doing any good so we went to Al anon and did very tough love.</p><p></p><p></p><p>She quit twelve years ago and is not mentally ill. The drugs made her act crazy. She started at age twelve. I couldn't stop it even that young. She had to want to do it.</p><p></p><p>When asked why she quit she always says, "it was too hard to use drugs." She is a happy normal mom now with a house, career and boyfriend of eleven years. Sometimes our help holds them back.</p><p></p><p>We didn't cause it, we can't control it and we can't cure it. This is 100% up to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 702072, member: 1550"] Unfortunately you did all you can. Your child or not, he is a man now and will only get better if he decides to do it. Part of helping to motivate them is very hard to do...it is to refuse to coddle them. I had to toss out my drug addict daughter at 19 and contribute no car and no money. I thought she was mentally ill too. And I felt like a horrible person but I had two young kids too. And nothing we did was doing any good so we went to Al anon and did very tough love. She quit twelve years ago and is not mentally ill. The drugs made her act crazy. She started at age twelve. I couldn't stop it even that young. She had to want to do it. When asked why she quit she always says, "it was too hard to use drugs." She is a happy normal mom now with a house, career and boyfriend of eleven years. Sometimes our help holds them back. We didn't cause it, we can't control it and we can't cure it. This is 100% up to them. [/QUOTE]
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