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<blockquote data-quote="amelia" data-source="post: 516183" data-attributes="member: 14169"><p>Yes, she was diagnosed as "possible" Borderline (BPD) and went through DBT (<em>Dialectical behavior therapy)</em>, 6 months and $5000 (totally out of pocket) later she was exactly the same, no improvement or progress at all. As for medications, she tried prozac, wellbutrin, paxil, elavil, celexa, cymbalta, and abilify, singly and in combinations. Through this "drug phase" she was hospitalized 7 times and had 1 suicide attempt, while still managing to graduate from HS and start college. She was never hospitalized or had suicide attempts when she was not on medications. She has been medication free since February 2007 and as bad as she is, she is not suicidal or had any hospitalizations. </p><p></p><p>I know you are right, Lisa, when you say it has to be up to her. Intellectually, I understand that, buy I keep feeling that maybe I have left some stone unturned the will be the thing that turns her around. I need to find an way to stop, back off, possibly be happy even if she is not. Its so hard, as you all know, to do this. I have had to do it in the past with my step-son, now 36, either homeless or in jail, and that's another story (walk into hell), with no resolution ever in sight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amelia, post: 516183, member: 14169"] Yes, she was diagnosed as "possible" Borderline (BPD) and went through DBT ([I]Dialectical behavior therapy)[/I], 6 months and $5000 (totally out of pocket) later she was exactly the same, no improvement or progress at all. As for medications, she tried prozac, wellbutrin, paxil, elavil, celexa, cymbalta, and abilify, singly and in combinations. Through this "drug phase" she was hospitalized 7 times and had 1 suicide attempt, while still managing to graduate from HS and start college. She was never hospitalized or had suicide attempts when she was not on medications. She has been medication free since February 2007 and as bad as she is, she is not suicidal or had any hospitalizations. I know you are right, Lisa, when you say it has to be up to her. Intellectually, I understand that, buy I keep feeling that maybe I have left some stone unturned the will be the thing that turns her around. I need to find an way to stop, back off, possibly be happy even if she is not. Its so hard, as you all know, to do this. I have had to do it in the past with my step-son, now 36, either homeless or in jail, and that's another story (walk into hell), with no resolution ever in sight. [/QUOTE]
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