In the latest episode of the Parenting Sucks series, #1 is back in rehab. I had several calls last night and this morning from an unknown number, which I ignored because I do not answer unknown callers. Then he called his dad and got an answer. Paranoid and delusional. Ran into the road to flag down a police officer yesterday to save him from the people out to kill him. They took him to rehab and gave him the choice of voluntary or baker. He signed voluntary. He had already smashed and thrown away his phone, again.
I went to see him at 2 and he of course got mad when I suggested that the multiple illegal drugs in his system might have influenced his perception. To avoid him getting too agitated and cutting the visit short I changed the subject to superbowl. He called me tonight during the game and said after reflection he thinks they were just trying to scare him because they could have killed him and didn't. The worst part is that even after the drugs are out of his system he never accepts that it was delusion. I apparently just think he is a liar. Sigh.
So now he says that Florida is no longer safe for him because of the people after him. Never will do that kind of stuff again, like the last couple times. We have family in 3 different states that will take him into safe loving environments if he is still willing to go away after he gets released. Family away from big city environments. He is likely to be released after a couple more days. Unless the powers that be decide to keep him because of his level of paranoia.
He is 24. I told him he got himself into this mess again and he is the only one to get himself out of it. We'll give him the other living arrangement options but we can't fix him. He has to choose another path.
Short version. Parenting sucks.