Ok. This update is a little late but so be it. My wife and I, plus our younger son and a friend of his were away the last 5 days DTS (that's down the shore) and had 5 wonderful perfect weather days on the beach. It was a great chance to unwind, relax, and forget about the stress our older son has placed on our family. The vacation was at times bittersweet because he was not with us, but this was tempered by knowing that #1 he is where he needs to be, and #2 at 20 years old how many more vacations would he have spent with us anyway?
Before we left, we went down to his treatment/rehab center and had a meeting with him and his primary counselor. While he IS making progress all of the counselors there feel that he is just not being totally open and honest with himself, opening up at meetings, and sometimes getting caught up with some people there that just are not taking this seriously. He says that he is taking this seriously and that he feels he is making more progress than they SEE. We tried to explain to him that he needs to be more open in meetings and let his feelings and thoughts out, otherwise the counselors there will not think he is progressing as well as he thinks he is. We think he was rather taken aback by our strategy as he probably thought my wife and I would side more with him, which we did not, and he seemed a bit miffed that we were taking the side of his counselor. We hope that this worked because he HAS to get this, he HAS to show them that he understands the seriousness of his disease and that he HAS to show them outwardly that he is an active participant in his recovery. If he doesn't, all bets are off and who knows what could happen legally.
I hate this shit with a passion. This really sucks.......
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