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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 629621" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>As one with a mood disorder, which is not as bad as Bipolar I, I still have to do the right things to be able to act like others do. I have to take my medicaiton all the time. I can't drink or do other fun drugs.</p><p></p><p>I think some of our mentally ill kids would get better if they took care of themselves. Oten they choose not to. That is NOT part of bipolar. And it only makes things worse. </p><p></p><p>They are not alone. I read that 60% of the mentally ill do not comply with their medications. They complain about side effects or they don't want to abstain from drinking/drugging or they think they can do it themselves. It's a very sad statistic. But your kid can get better and reject all those excuses. I know I'd be a mess if I even drank. It screws up the good affects of the psychiatric medications and renders them pretty useless.</p><p></p><p>I hope the best for all of our adult kids. 36 needs medications desperately as well and NOT eight Xanax a day!!!! as his psychiatrist was prescribing. His drinking while taking Xanax is unhelpful and scares me to death.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 629621, member: 1550"] As one with a mood disorder, which is not as bad as Bipolar I, I still have to do the right things to be able to act like others do. I have to take my medicaiton all the time. I can't drink or do other fun drugs. I think some of our mentally ill kids would get better if they took care of themselves. Oten they choose not to. That is NOT part of bipolar. And it only makes things worse. They are not alone. I read that 60% of the mentally ill do not comply with their medications. They complain about side effects or they don't want to abstain from drinking/drugging or they think they can do it themselves. It's a very sad statistic. But your kid can get better and reject all those excuses. I know I'd be a mess if I even drank. It screws up the good affects of the psychiatric medications and renders them pretty useless. I hope the best for all of our adult kids. 36 needs medications desperately as well and NOT eight Xanax a day!!!! as his psychiatrist was prescribing. His drinking while taking Xanax is unhelpful and scares me to death. [/QUOTE]
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