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[quote=Anonymous]Oy vey. Don't listen to the touchy feely "get a social worker" posters. That doesn't help. I speak from personal experience. I was a JV version of your son, and was sent to a military boarding school. I am doing very well now personally and professionally. However my former classmates whose parents were always there to bail them out...they are for the most part still a mess.

Maybe since my parents were that way, im a big proponent of tough love.  When he is 18 he is on his own if he wont live by your rules, which include that he takes meds or gets access to no food, goes to therapy or is given  no access to other resources, etc., he can live elsewhere.

I remember telling my parents that i was going to run away when i was in high school. They told me i could but could only take what i bought myself...which didnt even include my shoes. They also gave me the choice of boarding school success or jail because they wouldn't take me back and weren't hesitant to call the cops on me and press charges for some indiscretions.  I hated them at the time but id recommend a similar approach. It isn't too late.

Agree with previous suggestion re: Have a military recruiter talk to your son and tell him what he needs to do to get into the branch of his choosing.[/quote]

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