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husband: My OTHER bipolar child.
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<blockquote data-quote="keista" data-source="post: 448075" data-attributes="member: 11965"><p>Yes, he's self medicating - he's trying to quiet the activity in his brain because he CAN'T do anything. I do that often, and I'm TRYING to get DD1 to find such activities - unsuccessful so far.</p><p></p><p>Funny because I was using the sick/restless analogy to describe DD1's extreme boredom to a friend just his past week. When you're sick you're sick. But when you start feeling just a little bit better, you want to do stuff, but you CAN'T because you are still to sick. This causes the crazy restlessness/boredom. Your husband is still really too sick to do stuff so he's trying to find 'quiet' activities like a casino trip that he CAN do. </p><p></p><p>The movie was a great idea, but obviously not stimulating enough.</p><p> </p><p>I used to LOVE to go on the casino cruises, but then started selling on eBay. Since then virtually all desire to gamble has gone away because it touched on those same places in my brain. Try finding some sort of substitute for the casino that might touch on the same pleasure centers. If budget allows, think of 5 rare random things you can assign him to find and buy on eBay keeping within a set budget. Is there anything you've been looking to get? Have him research it on the net?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keista, post: 448075, member: 11965"] Yes, he's self medicating - he's trying to quiet the activity in his brain because he CAN'T do anything. I do that often, and I'm TRYING to get DD1 to find such activities - unsuccessful so far. Funny because I was using the sick/restless analogy to describe DD1's extreme boredom to a friend just his past week. When you're sick you're sick. But when you start feeling just a little bit better, you want to do stuff, but you CAN'T because you are still to sick. This causes the crazy restlessness/boredom. Your husband is still really too sick to do stuff so he's trying to find 'quiet' activities like a casino trip that he CAN do. The movie was a great idea, but obviously not stimulating enough. I used to LOVE to go on the casino cruises, but then started selling on eBay. Since then virtually all desire to gamble has gone away because it touched on those same places in my brain. Try finding some sort of substitute for the casino that might touch on the same pleasure centers. If budget allows, think of 5 rare random things you can assign him to find and buy on eBay keeping within a set budget. Is there anything you've been looking to get? Have him research it on the net? [/QUOTE]
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