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  • When Your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart

  • Coping with Mental Illness, Substance Abuse, and the Problems that Tear Families Apart
  • Written by: Joel Young MD, Christine Adamec
  • Narrated by: Rich Miller
  • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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When Your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart

Written by: Joel Young MD, Christine Adamec
Narrated by: Rich Miller
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Behind nearly every adult who is accused of a crime, becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol, or who is severely mentally ill and acting out in public, there is usually at least one extremely stressed-out parent. This parent may initially react with the bad news of their adult child behaving badly with, "Oh no!" followed by, "How can I help to fix this?" A very common third reaction is the thought, "Where did I go wrong - was it something I said or did, or that I failed to do when my child was growing up that caused these issues? Is this really somehow all my fault?"

These parents then open their homes, their pocketbooks, their hearts, and their futures to "saving" their adult child - who may go on to leave them financially and emotionally broken. Sometimes these families also raise the children their adult children leave behind: 1.6 million grandparents in the US are in this situation.

This helpful book presents families with quotations and scenarios from real suffering parents (who are not identified), practical advice, and tested strategies for coping. It also discusses the fact that parents of adult children may themselves need therapy and medications, especially antidepressants. The book is written in a clear, reassuring manner by Dr. Joel L. Young, medical director of the Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine.

©2013 Joel L. Young, MD and Christine Adamec (P)2020 Tantor

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great book

I thought this was an excellent book on the struggles of families with trouble the adults children, it's worth reading for anyone struggling with these issues

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Great for perspective

nothing can replace a good clinical therapist, but this was a wonderful addition to helping me find some perspective and some inner peace with respect to how my son breaks my heart. as the author says, it still isn't easy, but now I feel a little more resilient and I feel I have some strategies

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