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<blockquote data-quote="Sister's Keeper" data-source="post: 687902" data-attributes="member: 20051"><p>I am hesitant to reply, but I have been down this road too many times, so here goes, I hope you don't think some of it is unkind, but I am going to try to be honest.</p><p></p><p>Your son isn't "there" yet. He hasn't accepted that he is an addict, which is why he is holding himself in higher esteem than his peers. I think, also, and I'm sorry, but you need to look at your own feelings and behaviors in this. You call his drug use a "binge,' and have justified it based on depression/anxiety diagnosis. I'm not sure that either of you see him as an addict. </p><p></p><p>It sounds to me as if he is truly just going through the motions in order to avoid consequences or get the things he wants. It doesn't appear that he has internalized anything, and, truthfully, there is nothing that you can do to facilitate that. That is something that he will have to come to on his own.</p><p></p><p>He won't go to AA/NA because he doesn't see himself and an addict and feels he doesn't belong with "those people."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sister's Keeper, post: 687902, member: 20051"] I am hesitant to reply, but I have been down this road too many times, so here goes, I hope you don't think some of it is unkind, but I am going to try to be honest. Your son isn't "there" yet. He hasn't accepted that he is an addict, which is why he is holding himself in higher esteem than his peers. I think, also, and I'm sorry, but you need to look at your own feelings and behaviors in this. You call his drug use a "binge,' and have justified it based on depression/anxiety diagnosis. I'm not sure that either of you see him as an addict. It sounds to me as if he is truly just going through the motions in order to avoid consequences or get the things he wants. It doesn't appear that he has internalized anything, and, truthfully, there is nothing that you can do to facilitate that. That is something that he will have to come to on his own. He won't go to AA/NA because he doesn't see himself and an addict and feels he doesn't belong with "those people." [/QUOTE]
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