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<blockquote data-quote="aeroeng" data-source="post: 288684" data-attributes="member: 6557"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">I suspect the spending sprees won't go away and you need to watch her carefully. Don't allow her access to funds, and monitor everything. When she is an adult, don't give, loan or pay off her debt as it will be a never ending black hole. If you do become her financial life boat you will only enable the problem to become worse.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">I once had a room mate who demonstrated several behaviors of bipolar. She was tested for bipolar and found not to have it because she was always in a state of mania and never became depressed. However something was going on. She is now 60, and through out her life she has constantly made poor spontaneous decisions. She would work very hard to build up her business and then deliberately do something to destroy the whole thing. She sabotaged her own graduate school program. Periodically she will sale or buy a house. (Sell for 10s of thousands of dollars less then worth, or buy something falling down for the same price she could have gotten a good one). Twice she even got spontaneously married to people she knew would not work out. The second time she blamed on the Prozac. It has been hard watching her to do damaging things to her life, but all I can do is talk with her after it was done. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aeroeng, post: 288684, member: 6557"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]I suspect the spending sprees won't go away and you need to watch her carefully. Don't allow her access to funds, and monitor everything. When she is an adult, don't give, loan or pay off her debt as it will be a never ending black hole. If you do become her financial life boat you will only enable the problem to become worse.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]I once had a room mate who demonstrated several behaviors of bipolar. She was tested for bipolar and found not to have it because she was always in a state of mania and never became depressed. However something was going on. She is now 60, and through out her life she has constantly made poor spontaneous decisions. She would work very hard to build up her business and then deliberately do something to destroy the whole thing. She sabotaged her own graduate school program. Periodically she will sale or buy a house. (Sell for 10s of thousands of dollars less then worth, or buy something falling down for the same price she could have gotten a good one). Twice she even got spontaneously married to people she knew would not work out. The second time she blamed on the Prozac. It has been hard watching her to do damaging things to her life, but all I can do is talk with her after it was done. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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