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Originally Posted by spiritual_emergency
Living with someone who is in an early stage of recovery can be very challenging for all parties. You noted that you can't take him out of the house, but can you bring others in? In the link I shared from Windhorse Communities, they talk about creating a care team. This is beneficial to the caregiver because it helps to prevent burn-out but it's also beneficial to the individual in recovery because it helps maintain and restore social relationships and provide structure. It's possible you might be able to create your own care team drawing on local resources.
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I do hope he's in recovery. I'm very fearful right now that he's just vegetating on my couch.
I've read the stuff at the Windhorse site, and I'm reading Recovering Sanity right now. I wish I could have such a team for my son, but I don't see it happening. Except for the case manager, the local mhc is hell-bent on medication. My family is negative. They think he's manipulating and/or that he needs to be medicated. I can't afford to hire people outside of the mhc - except for one therapist I'm seeing for myself because he doesn't want psychotherapy. And I can only afford to see her once or twice a month. (She's pretty much anti-medication.)
He does seem to be making some efforts at recovery which I mentioned in other posts this evening.
But he's told me he isn't going to sleep tonight. He says he has nothing to do tomorrow so why sleep? I fear it will only escalate his psychosis. He's been around that block enough times that he must know he's just courting these extreme states of consciousness.
I was talking to a friend with sz tonight who is very pro-medication. He thinks my son is dangerous, and I should call the police and have him hospitalized tonight. Of course, I could create/escalate a crisis right now, but why? To what end? He wouldn't end up hospitalized tonight because he's not a danger to self or others and he has no intention of going voluntarily.
On the other hand this is the third time in a little over a week that he's acted out in an aggressive manner. Do I let him stay here?
I think he's mad as hell, and I'd like him to learn to deal with his anger appropriately. I don't think that's what will happen if he goes the medical route. He'll just be medicated. On the other hand, if I'm not safe, he'll go that route anyway, because he's not going to be able to maintain out in the world without help. He'll end up in jail or the hospital.
What do I do?