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UPDATE #2 (5/29): After he was discharged from the hospital he tracked down his car but refused to go home with his dad and realized he needed to get away from him. (Hallelujah, that's a eureka moment we've been waiting for). So now this morning he's en route to my wife's nephew in Dallas who works for Dallas PD. This nephew kinda knows what's going on with M, having seen him under the influence last Christmas apparently. So he's going to take care of M for a few days and then M I guess bought a plane ticket to come to us while he was still in the hospital. So he's coming to us and staying for at least a month, in the meantime we're going to try to detox him from more than just drugs, but also things like technology. If we don't take his iPhone away outright I may just cut the data. We're gonna see about connecting him with one of the brothers out at the Trappist monastery, cause I think the simplicity of Trappist life and spirituality may be a balm for M. Honestly we both wish he'd enter religious life but he has to overcome some stuff first (and actually discern it). So while he's here I'm gonna try to get him involved in a film production I'm directing and just surround him with stability as best as we can. Continued prayers would definitely be appreciated!
UPDATE: The hospital released him, all they found in his system was some pot. They said he was a "textbook case" of schizophrenia, gave him some meds and sent him on his way. This upset my wife because apparently this is a blow-by-blow repeat of a mental health episode her sister had several years ago. She ended up in the hospital because she was using some stuff that messed with her brain, but it was residual effects from prior usage. The hospital was just kinda dismissive and didn't actually help her. So now we're facing the same issue with my stepson.
I just got off the phone with my wife a few minutes ago, she's been gone all day taking her mom and sister to the airport (it's over an hour away from us). Anyway around the time she was due to head back she got a call from her son who was experiencing some kind of drug-induced psychotic episode.
I think everyone on here knows about my family situation but the short version is my wife had boy-girl twins in college, they're now almost 20, when we moved from NY to CA my stepdaughter decided to come with us and try going to college her while my stepson wanted to stay in NY and live with his grandparents. Since then his life has deteriorated, due to the influence of bad friends and his delinquent father he's gotten into drugs (first pot, then psychedelics like ketamine, mushrooms and possibly LSD).
He's broken my wife's heart time after time, with all these decisions, and yet despite all this he seems to be trying to counterbalance the bad with some good by being more proactive in faith. He went on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje last year (not that I think that's a good one but that's a conversation for another time). Anyway, her latest heartbreak involved the last-minute bombshell that he was going to move in with his deadbeat dad in Texas, whom we know/knew is just going to take advantage of him financially and lead him down the goat path of more drug use and immorality.
Then she got the call today. While he was on the phone with her he found a fire station, went in and the firefighters took him to the hospital. So at last check he's in a Houston-area hospital. We're not sure what our next steps are, it seems like he needs to go through some kind of rehab but we can't afford to put him through that. Supposedly before he took off and called my wife he got into some kind of altercation with his dad and threatened him. So safety is a question here too, I don't want him in my house when his sister and little brothers could be at risk, nor do I want to send him back to NY where my elderly in-laws could be at risk. But he's also definitely not in a good situation when his dad is his only family nearby and essentially his next of kin.
My wife's nephew works for Dallas PD so she may try to enlist his help somehow but we're not sure what he can do.
Anyway, that's the long and the short of it. If you could join me in prayers for my stepson. I don't want to give his name out, but you can just call him "M".
Thanks all.
UPDATE: The hospital released him, all they found in his system was some pot. They said he was a "textbook case" of schizophrenia, gave him some meds and sent him on his way. This upset my wife because apparently this is a blow-by-blow repeat of a mental health episode her sister had several years ago. She ended up in the hospital because she was using some stuff that messed with her brain, but it was residual effects from prior usage. The hospital was just kinda dismissive and didn't actually help her. So now we're facing the same issue with my stepson.
I just got off the phone with my wife a few minutes ago, she's been gone all day taking her mom and sister to the airport (it's over an hour away from us). Anyway around the time she was due to head back she got a call from her son who was experiencing some kind of drug-induced psychotic episode.
I think everyone on here knows about my family situation but the short version is my wife had boy-girl twins in college, they're now almost 20, when we moved from NY to CA my stepdaughter decided to come with us and try going to college her while my stepson wanted to stay in NY and live with his grandparents. Since then his life has deteriorated, due to the influence of bad friends and his delinquent father he's gotten into drugs (first pot, then psychedelics like ketamine, mushrooms and possibly LSD).
He's broken my wife's heart time after time, with all these decisions, and yet despite all this he seems to be trying to counterbalance the bad with some good by being more proactive in faith. He went on a pilgrimage to Medjugorje last year (not that I think that's a good one but that's a conversation for another time). Anyway, her latest heartbreak involved the last-minute bombshell that he was going to move in with his deadbeat dad in Texas, whom we know/knew is just going to take advantage of him financially and lead him down the goat path of more drug use and immorality.
Then she got the call today. While he was on the phone with her he found a fire station, went in and the firefighters took him to the hospital. So at last check he's in a Houston-area hospital. We're not sure what our next steps are, it seems like he needs to go through some kind of rehab but we can't afford to put him through that. Supposedly before he took off and called my wife he got into some kind of altercation with his dad and threatened him. So safety is a question here too, I don't want him in my house when his sister and little brothers could be at risk, nor do I want to send him back to NY where my elderly in-laws could be at risk. But he's also definitely not in a good situation when his dad is his only family nearby and essentially his next of kin.
My wife's nephew works for Dallas PD so she may try to enlist his help somehow but we're not sure what he can do.
Anyway, that's the long and the short of it. If you could join me in prayers for my stepson. I don't want to give his name out, but you can just call him "M".
Thanks all.
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