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difficult child's joblessness is getting to me. Not sure where to go from here
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 551587" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Like CiV's difficult child's my daughter does not avail herself to any of the supports I put in place for her. She could have assistance with housing, therapy, jobs, education, medication, pretty much everything, and after I did so much work getting all of that lined up for her, she won't do any of it. When my granddaughter lived with her mother, I set up medical and dental insurance for her through the state, I did all the paperwork, all the work, and my daughter refused to do one form annually which would take 5 minutes to fill out and subsequently lost the insurance. I went through a nightmare of work trying to get her help, and, as far as I know, she has done nothing to change her life. Treatment resistance on their part makes getting a diagnosis impossible and getting them help so frustrating. I had to let go of that as part of my detachment too.</p><p></p><p>As MWM mentioned a large percentage of bi-polar folks refuse to take their medication. A really good book which helped me to understand the whys of that is An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, who is an authority on bi-polar, who has bi-polar disorder and she explains her world quite well and why she refused medication for years. </p><p></p><p>Living with MI is so difficult on the family, I know that first hand. For me, the only sane choice has been to let go, to detach, to accept and to set very strict boundaries, difficult at best, especially with our kids. Dash, I wish you peace of mind and the knowledge that you're doing the very best you can. (((HUGS)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 551587, member: 13542"] Like CiV's difficult child's my daughter does not avail herself to any of the supports I put in place for her. She could have assistance with housing, therapy, jobs, education, medication, pretty much everything, and after I did so much work getting all of that lined up for her, she won't do any of it. When my granddaughter lived with her mother, I set up medical and dental insurance for her through the state, I did all the paperwork, all the work, and my daughter refused to do one form annually which would take 5 minutes to fill out and subsequently lost the insurance. I went through a nightmare of work trying to get her help, and, as far as I know, she has done nothing to change her life. Treatment resistance on their part makes getting a diagnosis impossible and getting them help so frustrating. I had to let go of that as part of my detachment too. As MWM mentioned a large percentage of bi-polar folks refuse to take their medication. A really good book which helped me to understand the whys of that is An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison, who is an authority on bi-polar, who has bi-polar disorder and she explains her world quite well and why she refused medication for years. Living with MI is so difficult on the family, I know that first hand. For me, the only sane choice has been to let go, to detach, to accept and to set very strict boundaries, difficult at best, especially with our kids. Dash, I wish you peace of mind and the knowledge that you're doing the very best you can. (((HUGS))) [/QUOTE]
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