son jake

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Hi Colleen,

I hope i have the right person. i was so surprised to hear your son isn't on

meds. we are the most anti-med people i know, but i can't imagine not having

our dd on meds. There must be a way to hospitalize him and try different meds

safely to see what would happen. He may find something that puts his mind

to rest.

my parents did not see my brothers problems until he was over 18 and having

serious problems. he was never on meds in order to develop more normally. he

struggled for years with bad thoughts and inappropriate sexual thoughts. it

was only after he was 18 and in college that his behavior got out of control,

he jumped out of a window in my parents house and lucky for him landed on an

awning and only broke his arm. He was taken to the mental hospital for a

short stay. unfortunately, my parent did nothing to get some kind of legal

control over him. my brother is a musical genius and incredibly bright. I can

only

wonder what his life might have been like if he had had medication with

treatment early on when he first started struggling.

i wish to this day that my parents had acted earlier and found him the right

meds. by the time he was over 18 i wish they had become his legal guardians

so they could have insisted on treatment and or the long term risperdal that

they put under the skin it lasts for 3 months.

His condition has worsened and he lives on the streets and in a park, he is

so smart that he knows that if he doesn't talk to the " crisis team " that we

have sent out to take him into treatment that they cannot bring him in. if he

won't talk they can't evaluate him. He is too paranoid now to get the help he

needs. If in the future he has to seek help from a hospital i can only pray

that some social worker will try to get him some help. He lives many states

away and I cannot monitor him.

Take action now to properly medicate and get treatment while you have legal

control.

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