Why are there no free mental health rehabs for adult children? Do our children have to die before someone listens?

My son is depressed and he is an alcoholic. He doesn't think he has a problem...I DO! No one will help him,it cost alot of money to committ him (he won't go do it on his own) and I can't afford to pay it!

The system SUCKS! Asked by mental 6 months ago Similar questions: free mental health rehabs adult children die listens Health > Addictions.

Similar questions: free mental health rehabs adult children die listens.

Well, first, I understand your pain and frustration. This is your child, and you are watching him fade away. I'm sorry.

However, the thing about alcoholics is this. If he won't go on his own, then there is no reason for him to go, at all. No one stops drinking until they are ready to, You could put him into a hundred rehabs, and it would do no good.

When he got out, he would drink again. And if he is an adult, you cannot have him committed. You do not have the legal right to do so.

The only person who could have him committed involuntarily would be a judge - and that is reserved for people with serious mental illnesses. Your son doesn't qualify. Now, to try to offer you some help.

There are free or low cost mental health clinics where he could get medication to help with his depression. There are also a few free drug and alcohol rehabs around, but he is going to have to want to go, himself. He doesn't need a mental health rehab.

He's an alcoholic, not mentally ill. You, yourself, need to get hooked up with Al-Anon, the program for families of alcoholics. He won't help himself, so you are going to have to go the help you need for YOURSELF.

al-anon.alateen.org/Good luck. Org.

Check with your local county hospital-- most have some level of free mental health care. For depression, a plain old family doctor can diagnose and prescribe for that-- they do it all the time. If he doesn't think he has a drinking problem, there's nothing you can do for him.

About all you can do is to pin up a schedule of local AA meetings on the fridge door. I've been to a few as a onlooker, and they're just fabulous-- just a bunch of people sitting around talking, but the good feelings going around are just astounding. Good fellowship, and after the main meeting most of the folks go on to a cafe and drink coffee and chat and support each other.

I get the warm-fuzzy feelings just thinking about it.

I remember when they started cutting the budget for mental care facilities clear back during Reagan's terms of office... I think it had something to do with socialized medicine being bad and these people are better off out learning to fit into society; or words to that effect. Isn't small government great? .

Well, two issues -1) your son is in denial, and until he hits bottom and wants to do something about the problem (getting on medication and never drinking again) there is nothing anyone else can do2) start pushing for free universal health care in the US for all citizens.

Thank You for your input. I do believe he has "hit rock bottom" I just don't think he feels it. Thank You again.

Mental 6 months ago .

Mam I feel your pain I was a drug addict for over ten years and am not proud of the things I did or heartach I caused my family,if your son is unwilling to admitt his problem and seek help on his own for his own personal gain in his life then theres nothing you can do to help him,you can have him convicted to all the rehabs and mental wards you want all thats gona do is cause more anger in him and make his drinking worse,you basically have two choices from here either you watch him waste away or stand beside him everyday showing him love and compassion for his problems letting him know your there to help him in any way he wants to get clean,most addicts want help just are to ashamed to ask and im sure you have expressed your help to him just maybe in a negative way in his eyes,let him know your there and all you want to do is help,you cant do it for him he has to do it cause he wants a better way,also try in a caring loving way to find out what the enitial problem is there is something thats causeing him to be depressed,good luck and god bless .

Also there is free help you just need to find it for your area .

It doesn't cost a blessed thing to commit someone to a facility for a dual-diagnosis (depression & alcoholism)Bottom line though, he won't quit unless he's good and ready to do it for himself. Nobody can force him - it won't work. Cut all ties with him or have him committed to treat his depression.

However, in order to commit him, he has to be suicidal or homicidal...

YOU can not help him, he needs to hit rock bottom before he realizes he has a problem. And even then he may still deny he has a problem As suggested you need to take care of yourself, go to Al Anon, they can help you deal with an alcoholic son. You will need to set a bottom line and stick to it.Is he living with you?

Do you pay his expenses? Pay for his phone, rent, food, booze, bail him out if he gets thrown in jail? All that must stop, kick him out, make him take ownership his actions.

It is time for tough love. No more enabling him, don't be his co-dependent. If he gets thrown in jail, leave him there, a judge may order him to rehab, I know 2 people who were court ordered to 1 year inhouse rehab, the county paid.

Why do you keep calling him a child if he is an adult? How old is he? With you calling him that I get a picture of a mother who won't allow her baby to grow up, and take responsibility of his own life.

That will keep your son sick, and an alcoholic.

He brought his problems on himself, no one else. Until he takes ownership and responsibility of his disease, he will never be free of it.

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Thank You for your input. I do believe he has "hit rock bottom" I just don't think he feels it. Thank You again.

Mental 51 months ago.

Thank You for your input. I do believe he has "hit rock bottom" I just don't think he feels it. Thank You again.

Mental 56 months ago.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.