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- Well, 6 years in my son finally said the words, "I am an alcoholic." Some part of me was in denial with him (although I didn't really know it) and the words made me cry for a day and then spend a day on cloud 9 - finally some progress! He has a hard...
- Oh boy. Just learned that my father, bipolar narcissist, has about 3 years before his kidneys will shut down. I don't speak to him but this has me so upset. While he can't really love me, I guess I will always love him (or my idea of him from...
- My son was forced into wilderness therapy and then a year long program just after he graduated from high school. He has been ok since - not great but getting by. Can't finish anything but generally a good citizen and we let him live with us. Last...
- I've been having a bit of a meltdown lately. We always talk about addicts needing to 1)stop using 2)get at the underlying issues that make them want to use. I am full of worry that my own insecurities and anxiety/depression are the problem and that...
- Hi All. I am wondering how many of you have had experience with your family member using meditation as part of his or recovery. My son is 21 and has been doing pretty well for the last 2 years after a very bad 2 year period before that. He has not...
- My older son is 21 and had a pretty intense 18 month meltdown at the end of high school. After being arrested, wilderness therapy, being forced to sleep on the street when he tried to leave wilderness and come home, more wilderness therapy, a...
- Oh oh oh. Just came back from the funeral for my friend's chronically depressed, alcoholic daughter. She was just 30 and had struck one of those deals with herself that she would only drink X times a week, then just X times a month, then even less....
- I have lived with anxiety all my life. But as the years go by I am increasingly feeling like it goes beyond painful to exhausting. I am counting the years I have left on this planet and wishing their were less. I am new to this group and see that so...
- Hello - new to this group!My son is a fourth generation depressive. I suffer from depression, my father does, and his father did. He is just beginning to get real help (although he has had therapy off and on since he was 8) since substance abuse...
- My younger son remains (justifiably) furious with my older one - whose treatment of his younger brother was horrible while he was drinking. They are only 20 months apart, but the younger boy looked up to his brother and they were close before it all...
- My son is doing great and full of plans one day, then changes his mind the next. One day he is an alcoholic, the next day he is not and can have a drink now and then. One day he is going to college, the next maybe not. Getting married yes... OK...
- My son is doing better! He is not always sober - although he is not drinking at all, he sometimes uses pot and admitted to trying LSD, too. On the hand, he has held down a job for almost a year now, is increasingly independent, goes to meetings...
- My son is doing better! He is not always sober - although he is not drinking at all, he sometimes uses pot and admitted to trying LSD, too. On the hand, he has held down a job for almost a year now, is increasingly independent, goes to meetings...
- I know Jacob has brought it on himself - but it is so hard to watch him, only 20 months older than his brother, get passed by. My younger one is applying to college and will likely get in to his first or second choice school. Jacob was a straight A...
- My therapist suggested "What if the next time he starts using again, you just say, 'Wow. That must be really hard for you.'" So the next time he did a lousy thing - scaring us all by arranging to see us and disappearing until we thought he was...