re: My brother has been missing since 9/1/21. UPDATE HE’S BEEN FOUND BY THE OT.NEW UPDATE 1/23

Frick yeah. Merry Christmas. Great update. I can’t imagine the joy this has brought your family.

I kept checking this post, hoping for an update. This is amazing. I’m so glad he’s home with you.

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He will be staying with us through Christmas with the necessary meds needed to keep him from any dangerous withdrawals. On Monday he will enter a 10 day detox followed by a 30 day in-patient recovery center. He sounds ready and genuinely committed and I’m beyond happy for that. As a lot of y’all have mentioned the real work is about to begin, but he has the right attitude and I’m believing for a successful recovery and looking forward to seeing him make the most of this.

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Really happy for you man.

But as you said, the real work is about to begin. It’s not going to be easy man. He was addicted to some hardcore shite and has some deep psychological and physical issues. He was living at the bottom of society and doing things you can’t even contemplate.

It’s going to be hard. There are going to be setbacks and moments of absolute despair.

But you got this. Stay with it.

What can the OT do to support you? Let us know.

Merry Christmas, baw. Great story.

Remember that his addiction affects you. Would strongly recommend talking to someone about that after the holidays.

Loosely kept up with this thread since it was started. Happy as hell to see your brother was found. Seems like a long road to travel to get better. I’m not going to pretend to understand how much it’s going to take.

With that said, there’s nothing worse than some cun+ keeping away a son/daughter away from their father. I understand that theres 100% more to the story than what Colin was saying and there probably were times where he wasn’t being the father figure he was supposed to be, but there are routes to take to keep from being completely blackballed from your child’s life. It seems like that bitch was the catalyst for this entire situation.

I hope that at some point he’s able to see his boy again and get his life in order. Social media is an absolute curse and blessing at the same time. Solid work and good on LSUEnvy for catching this video.

Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!

This type of act is the kind of thing you’ll never see celebrated in the MSM or social media but it’s the only thing that’ll hold us together when those forces try to tear us apart

Seems like a smart guy that can really have a purpose when he gets things figured out. I am pulling for him.

So happy to hear that, and will be really pulling for Colin and your family. He reminded me a lot of some people I knew and know who may not have reached that depth, but were certainly well on the way. Many managed to pull themselves out and its amazing the change that 1 year, 3 years, 5 years can make. There are tons of support resources out there now.

This TED Talk about addiction has always stuck with me in that in many cases it is lack of connection, meaningful relationships and warmth that drives people to that lifestyle and providing the opposite is really the best thing you can do support forging a new path.

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Lots of nuances and challenges involved, but I think it helps provide a good insight for the road ahead. I'm not sure if you have dealt with this in your friends / family very much, but it will be a long road and the 30 days is just the start. After the acute withdrawal symptoms will likely come big fluctuations in good days and bad days for 6 months - 1 year probably, with good periods getting longer and longer, before his system can really stabilize.

I would read up on something called Post Acute Withdrawl Syndrome as being ready for and mitigating the bad days is a big part of not relapsing. There may be some unfortunate and uncomfortable setbacks, but there is always hope. Best of luck.

Any update on how your brother has been doing OP?