brighthope

I am just beginning to learn that, now that I have decided to try to demand some medical help for my daughter. I had my first meeting with a mental health administrator yesterday and all he could do was talk legalities, while my daughter suffers and gets sicker and sicker.

I am almost 50 years old - I feel exhausted and traumatized from dealing with all the life threatening episodes for the last two years- hospitalizations and criminal episodes around my daughter's alcoholism.

I don't know if I have it in me to fight a system that utterly refuses to use the involuntary committment laws we have here.

But at the same time, I still have to try.

Thank you for your words of wisdom. It helps to talk to someone who deals with the pain of having an addicted and mentally ill adult child.

She is my only child - she is all I have in the world. (yes, this is a bit of self pity... )