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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 569112" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Dash,</p><p>My brother is bipolar, and even though he takes his medications every day, he still gets into depressive states where he sleeps for hours and hours on end, wakes up tired and groggy, and then goes back to bed. There is no talking to him when he's like that. He has no energy to think about anything.</p><p>In your daughter's case, however, she's showing up for work, and working her entire shift. It may be draining, but she's doing it (you built up her stamina with all your projects around the house lol). If you wake up really early tom'w and have breakfast with her, can you tell her you are very concerned that she's not followed up with the doctor, and you know that her job is exhausting, but she can't expect stability without at least trying the medication. I'd tell her that she may be summoning all her energy to get through her shift at Target, but there may come a day very soon when she will not have the strength to go to work, and she may lose all desire to work, and lose her job. </p><p>You can't force her, but if you phrase it that she's taking positive steps (initiating doctor visit, working steadily) and that you admire her tenacity. She may not have signed up for bipolar, but she has it, and you are confident that she can do what she is able to keep herself stable, and that you're behind her 100%. If, heaven forbid, she was diagnosed recently with a heart condition, you would expect her to follow doctor's orders...same goes for this.</p><p>You're such a great mom - I admire you. She will come around to your way of thinking eventually...she resists initially, but sooner or later she does recognize you're always right!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 569112, member: 13882"] Dash, My brother is bipolar, and even though he takes his medications every day, he still gets into depressive states where he sleeps for hours and hours on end, wakes up tired and groggy, and then goes back to bed. There is no talking to him when he's like that. He has no energy to think about anything. In your daughter's case, however, she's showing up for work, and working her entire shift. It may be draining, but she's doing it (you built up her stamina with all your projects around the house lol). If you wake up really early tom'w and have breakfast with her, can you tell her you are very concerned that she's not followed up with the doctor, and you know that her job is exhausting, but she can't expect stability without at least trying the medication. I'd tell her that she may be summoning all her energy to get through her shift at Target, but there may come a day very soon when she will not have the strength to go to work, and she may lose all desire to work, and lose her job. You can't force her, but if you phrase it that she's taking positive steps (initiating doctor visit, working steadily) and that you admire her tenacity. She may not have signed up for bipolar, but she has it, and you are confident that she can do what she is able to keep herself stable, and that you're behind her 100%. If, heaven forbid, she was diagnosed recently with a heart condition, you would expect her to follow doctor's orders...same goes for this. You're such a great mom - I admire you. She will come around to your way of thinking eventually...she resists initially, but sooner or later she does recognize you're always right! [/QUOTE]
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