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Anonymous:
That last comment regarding where our son will be in six months doesn't warrant a response, except thanks for the encouraging words.

Anonymous:

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"I predict that within 6 months you will be sending your son to a program.  You will not be able to manage him at home, and his drug use will greatly increase.  Perhaps wilderness is not the right place due to his anxiety disorder, but there are very good reasons why the kids can only communicate by letter.  The family dynamics are usually a big part of the underlying problem, and need to be removed from the equation before progress can be made."

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WROMG...that's like trying to change a flat tire by replacing the fan belt. You fix the problem by addressing THE problem, not another one.

Nihilanthic:
:smile:

I think that would be a great name for a subforum.. and if we could lure chi3 or detleg back here they could make a few posts too!
Never in the history of any nation has an education system been so on the point of disintegration and decay as the education system in this country...We know that education in this country is as bad as it can be.  We know that it is old-fashioned, irrelevant, and not meaningful.
--U.S. Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, 1970
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Anonymous:
Your advice is sound and we totally agree with what you are suggesting. Actually, we are doing most of it. We are in family counseling, our son is in a local rehab program (we tried individual counseling but found that it was not comprehensive enough) and he is also being counseled separately for his anxiety disorder. His present counselor in the rehab program is excellent, and we believe he is one of the first people to make an impact on our son's drug use. He has great support at school and everyone is on the "same page" of support for him. The next step will be inpatient treatment and after that a local long- term residential program if he messes up again; he knows we are very serious about this--it's not a threat but just what should happen if what we are doing at home is not working. He knows this and I believe it is causing him to make some better decisions.

My husband and son just got back from a rigorous group camping and canoeing trip. They really enjoyed it and we plan on more trips. The only piece you suggested that we're missing is the month-long outdoor/wilderness ("non-therapeutic") experience but we have a place in mind that sounds appropriate if that is the path we decide to take.

It is exhausting, sometimes downright hellish, but it just makes so much more sense to work things out at home. We have always been a close, loving family and we will NOT give up on our son. He has been dealt an alcoholic, drug-abusing gene pool, as well as other mental health issues that have made him more prone to drug abuse, and our sometimes too-flexible parenting hasn't helped, but we are in this together and will fight it through.

Antigen:
Sorry to be the stick in the mud here, but am I to understand that you're giving the kid speed then having him treated professionally for anxiety and also trying to prevent him from using cannabis? And, all the while, you hold over his head the threat of long term residential treatment? Don't you think that's rather at odds w/ the objective to reduce anxiety?

Kudos to ya for not shipping him off and for staying involved w/ him. But please don't think that he's just not bad enough to warrant it. Look around here and see what some of us have been through. Nobody's bad enough to deserve what they're selling as therapy because it's not therapy. You might just as well plan on trepanation as a backup plan as that.


I don't believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
--Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist
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