My son will not stay at home because I told him to stay away from his girl friend who I know is a crystal meth user. Now I only hear from him when he needs something. They stay any where and dont work she getd state aid. I think he is now using the drug
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I know that a lot of innocent children are harmed during the making of coke, but to think that cocaine is getting profit out of their teeth is just wrong and makes my feet warm. How are we supposed to protect our children if propane is making profit out of both cocaine and coca cola and the only ones to thank for gas is the children? I’m assuming this is why we’re supposed to tell our kids the tooth fairy exists, so we can give their teeth for coca cola’s cocaine, but how do they get it? I guess the general question is me wondering if cocaine is made out of children’s teeth and if this can be prevented by telling them the truth about the tooth fairy. My son is fifteen now and I think he’s getting suspiscious, I had to take him out of school because his friends were telling him that the tooth fairy wasen’t real, and I’m not going to let my bills pay for what cocaine is doing to our children!
This is for all the parents out there who don’t want Coca Cola being the new Google!
His life is spiraling out of control. He does O.K. for awhile and then he relapses. He can’t focus on school, work, he gets very angry. He is going back to inpatient this week. Is there anything else that can help an alcoholic. I love him so much. It is like an aggressive cancer.
Ok, i just found a type of skin cancer on my nephew. for one, he has jet black hair and dark skin (mexican decent). he just turned 2 this past 3rd of September. i was in the middle of bathing him when i went to wash his hair i felt a little bump. first i thought it was dry skin from craddle cap, then i lifted up his hair and their it was. a pink little lump. oh my goodness. i couldn’t believe what i was seeing. get this right next to it another one seems to be growing. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING. what could have caused it. could it be from his mother who is a drug addict or her feeding him nothing but milk. poor baby he’s been through so much, now this. i plan on taking him to emergency in the morning. HIS MOTHER WON’T GIVE MY BROTHER MY NEPHEW’S INFO SO THAT WE CAN GET HIM MEDICAL INSURANCE, GEE HE JUST TURNED TWO AND HE NEEDS HIS IMMUNIZATION SHOTS, WHICH I DON’T BELIEVE SHE’S KEPT UPTO DATE ON THAT.
WHAT CAN I DO??
HOW CAN I GET FULL CUSTODY OF MY NEPHEW? AND GET HIM THE CARE HE NEEDS?
When they argue, it is in front of my grandson. My son is alcoholic & I have suggested my dau-in-law got to Al-Anon. I go when I can. She has not gone to date. She is an only child, very spoiled & her parents are alcohlic. Outside of moving out, don’t know what to do. Should I intervene for my grandson’s sake or just stay in my room and keep to myself? I am very stressed out over this. I fear they are hurting my grandson & know my own son needs help, but refuses to get it.
Any advice is appreciated.
my ex wife let my son stay with her alcohlic mother today i was realy upset because we have both talked about this and thought we agreed that it was not safe for him at her place. this women has been an alcoholic for years and in the past four to six months gone to the crisis center at least twice and i think a thrid for sucide watch during a binge the last time this happened just a little over 30 days ago,and this time had to be escorted by police, my ex wife thinks because she has been on medicne and ok for 30 days and just a phone call away our son will be fine,(this is not the first or second time she has been ok for 30 days but many times over the past several years) my probelm with this is that not only has our son gone through some tough emotioal times recently and if he saw anything happen to his grand mother it would cause him great emotional harm but god forbid if she went off the deep end took my son in her car and got him hurt myabe worse. i dont think because u dont want to hurt someone’s feelings or what ever the case may be that she should put our son in arms way am i wrong to worry ?
A Mother’s Agony
Schizophrenic, drug addict son put her through ‘hell’ for years, then burned down their home
Doug Ward and Frances Bula, with files from Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Published: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
For years Helga Knippelberg’s schizophrenic son demanded that she give him money to feed his drug habit.
She would give him cash or cheques. Often she would borrow money from neighbours. If she refused his request for money, Ronald Knippelberg would regularly threaten to harm her or burn down their large east Vancouver house.
“It’s been horrible. No one can imagine,” Helga Knippelberg, 74, recalled Tuesday. “I’m not even afraid to go to hell because that man has put me through hell.”
Helga Knippelberg, 74, stands Tuesday by what’s left of her home of 51 years after it was burned to the ground Monday night by her son, Ronald, 47.
Ian Smith, Vancouver Sun
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Font: ****On Monday night, fire destroyed their house at 1091 East 21st Ave. Ronald Knippelberg, 47, was arrested by police after he escaped the three-alarm blaze by jumping out a second-storey window. He has been charged with arson and uttering a threat.
“I’ve lost everything, furniture, everything,” said Helga Knippelberg, standing beside the ruins of her home, where she had lived for 51 years, the day after the fire.
The German immigrant was accompanied by her daughter, Doris Fischer and a grandson, and embraced by neighbours and long-time friends — all of whom had watched with horror and fear for many years as Helga Knippelberg struggled with her son’s mental illness and his insatiable appetite for drugs.
She said her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17 after being sent to Riverview psychiatric institute by a judge.
He later became hooked on injection drugs while in prison, said his mother. Anger management therapy never worked and he wouldn’t take medication.
She described her son as someone “who hasn’t a friend in the world.”
Doris Fischer said her brother always refused therapy. “He never felt there was anything wrong with him. It was all of us who were the ones who were off.”
The mother hopes that her son finally gets the help that he never received before.
“I am hoping that somebody realizes that he needs help. He still has longer to live than I do.”
Helga Knippelberg said that on the day of the fire, her son had been berating her for not giving him enough money for drugs. She gave him a cheque, but he wanted some more. He needed another hit of whatever drug he was using that day — crack cocaine or heroin.
Her son, like most drug addicts, can’t accept the word “no,” said Helga Knippelberg.
“When they do drugs, they are in a completely different world. It’s unexplainable. Unexplainable.”
He had already spent about $1,400 on drugs since March 7, when he was released from jail, she added, and had gone beyond the money limit she had set for him.
“He was in a very big need of a fix,” said Helga Knippelberg. He demanded that she borrow some money from a neighbour and she refused. She lay down on the chesterfield and he began walking up and down the stairs, appearing more and more hyper.
His behaviour became so worrisome that she decided to phone the police. He had already broken the downstairs phone so she ran across the street and asked a neighbour to call 911 just after midnight.
The police emergency response team appeared and then 38 firemen in 11 trucks.
Const. Tim Fanning said that a police negotiator tried to talk the “very upset, very distraught” suspect into leaving the house. But he had barricaded the door and the police couldn’t enter.
What is the mens reas and actus reas?
What exactly is a body detox, and what are the benefits?? I ask because someone told me to try it. I am completelty sluggish and tired 24/7, I have NO energy, am always getting sick, even my skin, hair and nails feel terrible. Since my son was born, I havent been able to take care of myself,due to complications. I have ate nothing but fatty greasy foods, not exercised,not sleeping much at all, and drink coffee all day long. Well now hes better, And I need to get myself back to me. I want to start over. Eat right and exercise. I want to feel good again. Will a detox be the way to start??I just didnt have the time to take care of me, and now I have to. What exactly does a detox do?? And what benefits or results come out of it??? Like I said, I want a fresh start, I have to take care of me now. Thank You.
I was just wondering about this since a friend of mine wants to suggest something to her parents so that they may be able to put their son in the right drug rehab. What are the factors to consider?
Has anyone smoked crack before, if so what does it feel like? My son has been doing this and he cant stop I recently found out my son has been smoking crack, and he cant stop. I was curious as to what it feels like to make someone not want to stop. So if youve tried crack, did you stop and what does it feel like that people like it so much? I am worried about my son and am trying to understand why he wont stop.
I’ve already convinced him that alcohol isn’t going to do him any good. He has now realized that it’s better if he undergoes treatment. Alcohol rehabilitation costs so much, and we can’t afford it. Does anybody have any suggestions about this?
her husband kicked her out last week after 20 years of her taking drugs and drinking. They have an autistic son and she was totally out of control. She lived in Seattle I told her she could come down where I live in texas and would help her if she went to AA. she doesn’t want to go when I make her she sleeps. I rented her a place until friday (that will be her here a week) she just hung up on me when I asked why she skipped another meeting. Said I was not her mother. All she wants to do is go stay at my vacation house on the beach and sit in the sun. I want to just leave her where she is let her figure something out herself. My friends say let her go to the coast and stay there. Well what good is that? living in my house just going to the beach taking god knows what. Not sleeping for days. She weighes about zero pounds. If she was your sister what would you do? give her a chance at the beach or just cut my losses. I am exhausted
We are in an area where there is a lot of need for this and my son being a recovering addict himself and my husband with military background, we feel like we could form the correct environment for these people who are hurting so bad. We feel that prison is not the answer for drug addiction.
how long does cocaine last in the stool of a newborn if a mother has used cocaine?
When they argue, it is in front of my grandson. My son is alcoholic & I have suggested my dau-in-law got to Al-Anon. I go when I can. She has not gone to date. She is an only child, very spoiled & her parents are alcohlic. Outside of moving out, don’t know what to do. Should I intervene for my grandson’s sake or just stay in my room and keep to myself? I am very stressed out over this. I fear they are hurting my grandson & know my own son needs help, but refuses to get it.
Any advice is appreciated.
My family is questioning why I would not want my nephew in my house *especially* now that I have kids. ??? He has not sought help (never went to rehab or acknowledged that he has a problem), is extremely violent towards his immediate family (i.e., death threats)), has vandalized his parents’ home several times… I *love* my nephew and hope that he recovers from his addictions, but I am a parent who has an obligation to protect my own children. There was no nice way to break it to my family even though I tried. Now, I am being regarded as the bad guy. I seriously don’t understand… Am I the one who is crazy here? How would you have responded in this situation?
I am divorced from my ex because after she gave birth to our son she turned into an abusive and alcoholic lady. And i did not want my son around that. But anyways for the past week or so my son and i have been showering together, he is two years old. I do it out of convenience really, knock two birds out of the way with one Stone. We both get our showers and i am able to make sure he dose not get hurt or anything doing it.
Hello, I am a 27 year old man who is having major issues with binge eating. My weight fluxuates between 185 to 230 a couple times a year as the problems come and go. I’ve always been a heavy eater but never gained weight until college. A few years ago I dropped down to 185 and that is when the rollercoaster began. My wife, whom I met a little under 3 yrs ago is Bulimic. She has fought the disease for over 10 yrs and is only 24 yrs old. As of now we are binging multiple times per week and cannot seem to get control of it. I find myself spending upwards of $10 per day at the snack machine. We are consuming close to 10k cal each per day we binge. There is much more to this but not enough char. to type it all. She went a whole year when we found out she was pregnant but it recently started up again. Our son is 6 months old and this is hurting us both emotionally and financially. I’m worried about my son’s future. Drs. have not been able to help. Suggestions please. Thanks
There is much more to this situation. I suffer from social anxiety. I take cymbalta for it and when I miss a couple days the urge is uncontrollable. My mind WILL NOT focus unless I binge, this does not mean 3 Lean Cusines but for example chineese take out, two cokes, four pop tarts, and a piece of bday cake ~4″x10″. All gone in less than 10 minutes. My wife is a fitness instructor and their is constant conflict regarding food. This goes much deeper but not going into it. I also suffer from depression Want to stop bad but much easier said than done. When the urges come they take over, you lose control. Control that does not come back from counting to 10, or snacking on something healthy but an annoying hyper, itchy, can’t focus on ANYTHING no matter how hard you try feeling – until you eat until you cannot eat anymore. I have to satisfy feeling this at work to do my job (IT). Then I feel like I’ve taken a step back. Also self concious over weight. 6’1″ 230lbs.
My wife and I both hide this well. We are both very attractive people, her body looks great, mine is slightly overweight. We both always concerned about our looks. We’re both very nice to everyone we meet and very well liked but it feels like we are wearing a mask. People think we are these perfect people but we hide our secrets very well. I know this sounds like I’m tooting my own horn but I’m just repeating what we’ve heard from others. I’m reaching out here because I’ve exhausted all avenues and am very desperate. As my son gets older he will begin to pick up our behavior. I’m confident if we can begin to gain control over this we will be able to start improving our relationship, financial situation and other areas of our lives that continue to degrade.
How would i find him He is over 18 and supposedly moved in with a girlfriend. i ran into an ex friend of his who said he is hooked on drugs now but she does not know where he lives. i tried phone books and looking on the internet- no luck She said he was bad off the last time she saw him on hard drugs. Any ideas what I can do for him?
Me and my boyfriend have known each other for 7 years and have been together for 2 of them we have an 9 month old son as well. Now me and my boyfriend has had our arguments and have even fought but not like this night im about to tell u about.
Me and my boyfriend had been having problems for about 2 weeks i would stay gone n we would not sleep in the same bed when i got home.
Now on a saturday i left and later on that night at like 1 or 2 a.m. i get a phone call sayin that my boyfriend was super drunk had lost his phone and was tryin to drive so i went to go get him and told him to let me take him home he told me no and started yelling at me which turned to him pushing me hard to the ground in the parking lot and then we started fighting and i stopped and he kept coming at me dragging me by my hair banging my head to the ground stomping me punching me…everything and then he was sent to detox i did not press charges.
Now the next day i packed my shit and was ready to go but he got home early he tried to kiss me and i moved away he said whats wrong and i was like you dont know and he said that he did not remember i explained to him what had happened in detail of how he beat me and he could not believe it. I told him that me and his son was leaving and he started begging for me to stay and not to go and crying this went on for 2 hours he said that he promise never to do it again and that he made a huge mistake and that he would be better. Then he started talking about getting engaged and how much he love me and need me and for me to give him another chance i told him i already have several times he said that he knows but for me to please give him one more….
I know this is long but should i really stay?
