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[quote=Anonymous]Therapy alone isn’t going to treat or cure addiction or depression. Your son needs to see a psychiatrist specializing in addiction and mood disorders. Try to maintain open lines to your son. Separate your love from him and his addiction. He is self-medicating depression with meth. He needs to switch to Rx meds to treat his underlying illness. The therapist should help him look for outpatient treatment. Let him try that. Listen to what he is saying about not wanting to go inpatient. Focus on what he says about why. Don’t argue, listen. Support him by helping him find doctors on his health insurance plan. I recommend Xavier Amador “I’m not sick I don’t need help” for how to talk to someone with mental illness and help support them to be open to medication and treatment[/quote]
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