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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm a PP from page 2 who dealt with family denial that ended in suicide much like your friend's dd. You are on the right track with how you support the family, and god bless you for it. It sounds like your friend could use some distance to see the situation clearly.  if she knows this person also, maybe just mentioning how you have been thinking about them lately and wondering if her son is on that path will be a good conversation starter. If she kneejerks "NO that is NOT my son how could you say that!!!" vs if she says "yeah I've been worried about that too, nothing we do seems to be working"--then you will know how much denial she really is in.

Ignore the haters here. they have never dealt with mental illness or suicide and it's obvious.[/quote]

OP has been focused on getting him into a residential program, and seems to think that's the answer. So what happens when OP suggests it and her friend says, "Yeah, we looked into that, but we can't afford any of the private-pay clinics. We might be able to swing one that takes our insurance, but he won't admit himself. So the only way to get him in is to demonstrate that he presents an imminent risk of harm to himself or others, but according the doctors we've spoken to, we can't demonstrate that yet. So we're stuck." Then what is the OP going to say? What's the next brilliant insight?

It's terrible the toll this is taking on the whole family, but that doesn't mean there's a good answer to it.[/quote]

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