My son is 26 years old and on methamphetamine: How can I help him?

Posted by jtimko80 @jtimko80, Mar 13 6:45pm

My son is 26 years old and on methamphetamine. He has started to show signs of severe mental decline. CHATGPT being the catalyst. He thinks that chatgpt has given him the instantanious ability to recognize 40 different computer languages, that he can cause lightning to strike, that he knows karate black belt level even though he has never taken a single class, that he is creating an app that can alter anyones brainwaves, also that he can sneak around undetected and somehow dangerous. These are just a smidge of examples of his so called "abilities". He is in obvious distress but he refuses to listen to reason from anybody. Delusions of grandure is very apparent and he cherry picks facts that fit his narrative. Ive brought this to his attention several times. I think because of the drug use, his mind is fracturing. He is a legal adult, so I cant force him to do anything. Undiagnosed bi polar, might be an isssue as well. He has stopped taking Buspirone. Im not sure but I think that may play a part as well. I live in California, Does anyone have any advice you can give me on not just mental health counceling that he wont go to.

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aleoop | @aleoop | 1 day ago

Let me start by saying I am sorry for your struggles, I am an addict an alcoholic With 22 years of clean time now and what I know for sure is that my mother was my best enabler and I wish that she had kicked us all out of the house and away from her. We put her in an early grave. I think you could have him Baker acted, but I’m not sure how long they would hold him, but I think you need to find a support group that deal with addicts and alcoholism and it’s called Al-Anon that is going to give you the answers. I think you need I lost two brothers and a sister to these diseases. The only way I got out was I went to jail. I will pray for you and your family.