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<blockquote data-quote="rejectedmom" data-source="post: 130299" data-attributes="member: 2315"><p>About the change in geography.... more often than not it fails to help. The drug users that beniit from this strategy are the ones that really want to change, have been given the tools, are commited to their recovery and just need that last little bit to effect a lasting change. Count me as a been there done that parent. We relocated to help my son by getting him away from his low ife friends. This at the suggestion of his ADHD doctor. While I don't regret the move, it did nothing to help rehabilitate my difficult child. He just sought out a similar crowd in the new location. So, unless you really want to move, I do not recommend this approach. Moving is very stressful in and of itself. Second only to the loss of a spouse. </p><p></p><p>As far as your question of "is he crying out for help"? Possibily yes, but it is also possible that he wants to save face with this teacher. By his manipulating her into feeling sorry for him, she has been given the false impression that your son just needs you to push a bit harder at his rehabilitation. </p><p></p><p>In effect McWeedy took the focus off of his own responsibilities in getting help and set it right back on his parents and anyone else that could possibly been seen as having the power to force him into treatment. Personally I see his comments as nothing more than another manipulation, just an effort to bolster up his "poor me" personna to the outside worls. -RM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rejectedmom, post: 130299, member: 2315"] About the change in geography.... more often than not it fails to help. The drug users that beniit from this strategy are the ones that really want to change, have been given the tools, are commited to their recovery and just need that last little bit to effect a lasting change. Count me as a been there done that parent. We relocated to help my son by getting him away from his low ife friends. This at the suggestion of his ADHD doctor. While I don't regret the move, it did nothing to help rehabilitate my difficult child. He just sought out a similar crowd in the new location. So, unless you really want to move, I do not recommend this approach. Moving is very stressful in and of itself. Second only to the loss of a spouse. As far as your question of "is he crying out for help"? Possibily yes, but it is also possible that he wants to save face with this teacher. By his manipulating her into feeling sorry for him, she has been given the false impression that your son just needs you to push a bit harder at his rehabilitation. In effect McWeedy took the focus off of his own responsibilities in getting help and set it right back on his parents and anyone else that could possibly been seen as having the power to force him into treatment. Personally I see his comments as nothing more than another manipulation, just an effort to bolster up his "poor me" personna to the outside worls. -RM [/QUOTE]
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