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Cheryl, welcome to the group. There are many good people hanging around here speaking from their own experience. Unfortunately, he is an adult. He has to want help in order for you to be able to give him help. If you fear for his safety call 911, if you fear for your safety call 911. I know this is going to sound kind of calous but here goes anyway: We live by the rule with our adult children that we cannot give help until they want/ask for help. Anything else is interfearing. Love him (from afar if necessary), try and build a repore with hime, it is probably going to be hard at this stage. You may have to wait for a time when he is more open to talking. It is hard but sometimes they just have to reach the bottom before they are open to help. Please forgive me if this sounds negative, it is not intended to be. I am trying to be realistic. We cannot make anyone do anything they do not want to. By the way, they do tend to push away the ones they love (see other posts on this site for more info on that) Hang around, there are lots of others with ideas around here too, some of them will be coming through soon I am sure. We are here to talk whenever you want RED Post edited by: red1965, at: 01/24/2008 18:26 |
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