Could I please have some vibes for my daughter? [View all]

[LiberalEsto]

One of my daughters (age 27) was hospitalized last week for repeated suicide threats after her boyfriend broke up with her. At the ER, they gave her a blood test and discovered she was pregnant.

While she was in the hospital (a really good place), her sister and I went through her room to remove wine and otc and prescription pills. We discovered a prescription container of clonopin that she'd had refilled April 4. It was filled with otc benadryl tablets, but no clonopin. When I asked her on the phone where she'd put the 30 tablets, she told me she'd taken five of them a day for six days and finished it all.

My husband had met with her doctor a month or two ago to ask him to stop prescribing it for her, and the doctor agreed, but she had one more refill on her last prescription. I told her to tell her case worker, and I told the case worker as well.

A doctor advised my daughter that she might want to consider an abortion because of the heavy doses of clonopin, but she freaked out. She had an abortion two years ago and has felt miserably guilty about it ever since. She's spoken to the ex-boyfriend about it - he's 27, lives in another state - and they're going to "work things out" and keep the baby. Neither one has a job or has finished college - he's living with his father because of a DUI.

When I picked her up at the hospital, she seemed sweet, calm and reasonable. When we got home she began yelling at me about going through her room and letting her older sister go through her room. I know she's going through withdrawal, but she would not let up on me. This morning she barely spoke to me before leaving for an outpatient session at the hospital. She lives with us, is unemployed and is about to start classes to become a certified nursing assistant.

I don't know how I'm going to get through the coming weeks and possibly months of verbal abuse. I will try to get to an al-anon meeting this evening, if only to get away from her.