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How bad can bi-polar get? Any experience here?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 656472" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I second this. If he is actively using drugs it will cloud any diagnostic picture.</p><p></p><p>Even after stopping drugs, symptoms often remain that are an artifact of the drug use. Sometimes they are long-term and even permanent other times, not.</p><p></p><p>There is no way that we on this board, professional or not, can responsibly advise you about a diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>Many of us are in the same soup as you: Is it drugs? Is it a personality disorder? Is it an active Axis I diagnosis, such as a mood disorder, psychosis, anxiety, etc.? Is it a developmental disorder? Neurological? Or a mixed picture?</p><p></p><p>All of us have adult children. We struggle to deal with situations over which we have limited control; and how to respond to our pain and fear. </p><p></p><p>I struggle too to figure it all out, diagnostically. I think this is because I am struggling to hope...and think a diagnostic picture might either shore up my hope, or take it away. This is a fantasy.</p><p></p><p>More urgent I think for me are the questions: How to handle my grief and fear and need to go on in life? What does a relatively healthy relationship with my son look like, given our current circumstances, and how can I put that into practice?</p><p></p><p>You are making strides in the latter, setting parameters for contact or no.</p><p></p><p>How are you handling your grief and fear? What about support and therapy for you? </p><p></p><p>Keep posting, as will I and we can do this together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 656472, member: 18958"] I second this. If he is actively using drugs it will cloud any diagnostic picture. Even after stopping drugs, symptoms often remain that are an artifact of the drug use. Sometimes they are long-term and even permanent other times, not. There is no way that we on this board, professional or not, can responsibly advise you about a diagnosis. Many of us are in the same soup as you: Is it drugs? Is it a personality disorder? Is it an active Axis I diagnosis, such as a mood disorder, psychosis, anxiety, etc.? Is it a developmental disorder? Neurological? Or a mixed picture? All of us have adult children. We struggle to deal with situations over which we have limited control; and how to respond to our pain and fear. I struggle too to figure it all out, diagnostically. I think this is because I am struggling to hope...and think a diagnostic picture might either shore up my hope, or take it away. This is a fantasy. More urgent I think for me are the questions: How to handle my grief and fear and need to go on in life? What does a relatively healthy relationship with my son look like, given our current circumstances, and how can I put that into practice? You are making strides in the latter, setting parameters for contact or no. How are you handling your grief and fear? What about support and therapy for you? Keep posting, as will I and we can do this together. [/QUOTE]
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