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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 22yo had a psychotic break 18 months ago and it's been incredibly hard to pull him out of the psychosis.  Currently on his third hospitalization/psych hold.  We wish SO SO much we'd been a lot stricter in high school about him smoking pot.  I think that was the gateway to everything that came afterward and it has such strong ties to psychosis.  It seemed like this came out of the blue, but in hindsight there were signs of what was coming.  However, we didn't know what to look for, or that we should be looking.  We have no family history of anything like this.  It's a living nightmare and something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

The only piece of advice I have is to try to get your child to sign a release enabling you to speak with their medical care team once they are 18.  We didn't have this in place and it made things so much harder.  We couldn't get him to update it and have just been told it expired. [/quote]

The same thing happened to my sibling. Give yourselves a break and let yourself off the hook. He may have been smoking pot to self medicate for symptoms he already had that he couldn’t manage otherwise. You don’t know for sure that keeping him away from marijuana would have kept him sane. [/quote]

Yes, this may very well be the case.

For the PP with the 22 y.o. son, just do the best that you can and realize it will not always be as best as you wish. Even if hospitals/treatment professionals say that can't LYK, just letting the psych and crisis teams, med staff, etc know that there is someone who cares about this young adult can make a difference.

OP,  before our DCs left for college, we had them sign medical forms. Had no idea how this would come into play when we did this.

We still have to have our DC give permission each and every time they have a new treatment team. So far, they have agreed to it. There may come a time they will not, but so far we have been fortunate.

GL to everyone on this thread.[/quote]

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