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Originally Posted by nostatic

Sounds like a bad shrink. It happens. Try to get him to see another one and get a decent diagnosis. The self-medicating can be for any number of reasons and you need a professional to get at what's driving it. But it also sounds like he's never really hit bottom before. Has he ever lived on his own? And if he did previously, did he get bailed out when the going got tough?

Yeah, he's never hit rock bottom. We'd hoped that at one point about a year ago he'd gotten close enough, but apparently not. Yes, he did live on his own a couple of times, and yes, he has been bailed out.

I was thinking that if he asked for help, that we might be willing to help in some way, but so far he hasn't asked for anything. He's tried to manipulate us with this threat.

I'll really hate it if he does go through with it, but I think it's very important not to give in to his ploy. He seemed pissy that we didn't fall for his stunt.