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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents have friends who are still supporting their adult boys.

Both boys were the type who made weed their main hobby and personality in high school.  My parents used to tell me that it wasn't their/our place to tell the parents.  But no surprise that both struggled to finish college or establish themselves as adults.  One is now working as a UPS driver and living at home, and I haven't asked recently where the other is, but I know his parents repeatedly had to go collect him in other states when he had weird mental breakdowns and did things like wander around in the snow in inappropriate clothes muttering to himself and scaring kids until police got involved, and another occasion where he had some kind of job in Colorado and his boss called his parents to say he was having a mental break and they needed to come get him immediately.  I think it was pretty clear he had schizophrenia or was using hard drugs, or both, and I remember my parents talking about how amazed they were that his parents weren't having him do some kind of inpatient treatment or at least encouraging him to stay with them too.  He was a scary guy and always looked a little bit crazed in the eyes in high school, and I could see him doing something like this.[/quote]

Maybe you could recommend a place to “help”? You do understand that Medicaid and Medicare do not pay for psychiatric stays?

You may be surprised to learn that current treatments are not very effective and completely don’t work well for those with schizophrenia. The meds may help with paranoia and hallucinations, but 75% of patients struggle with severe ADHD, tiredness, and confusion. Current treatments suck.

The Prozac family of drugs has stopped the lie on the ground depressed persons that used to be in mental institutions. Science is behind on bipolar and schizophrenia unfortunately. [/quote]

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