Right. He's seeing a psychiatrist, whom I've met and I like a lot, and a psychologist for weekly couch sessions. The important thing I'm realizing is that he's not being totally honest with them, he's leaving certain things out, which I try to stress is not going to enable him to get any better. He missed his follow-up appt with the psychiatrist yesterday because he stayed up until 4am and then took 2 Ativan, which knocked him out for 14 hours. His parents' attitude is, "We gave him the pills when we went to bed at 9pm, if he didn't take them till 4am, that's his problem."

When I spoke to his mom today on the phone, I told her she needs to give him his Ativan and watch him take it. She had no response except, "I'm done. I can't deal with this anymore. He needs to start looking for his own place." I said, "You can be done with the behavior, but are you done with your son? Really?" She had no response. The woman has checked out. I was so pissed off at her I threw my toast across the room, lol. I said, "If he had lost his leg in a car accident, would you be making him change his own bandages and crawl to the kitchen for water, or would you be sleeping next to his bed and helping him?" No response.

I'm realizing that his parents are the problem. They put off having his CAT scans done 7 years ago when he was complaining about dizziness, headaches, forgetfulness, and blurry vision, and the doctors said if they'd caught the tumor earlier, they could've prevented the mild palsy he has on one side. Instead, now he's deaf in his right ear, has no taste sensation on the right side of his tongue, and can't type, drive, or play the guitar anymore. Now, they're hiding their heads in the sand about this, and I'm so worried he's going to end up being institutionalized due to their chronic slowness to act. I'm about ready to move him in here so I can keep a better eye on him.