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How to even talk on the phone with my son....
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 656691" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>As a mental health consumer (Gawd, I hate calling mentally ill patients consumers) I can tell you that from being around so many people who are bipolar and otherwise mood disordered (from the hospital for ten weeks to self-help groups to groups lead by therapists) mood disorders do not usually cause delusions. Most of the folks I've met on my long journey have been perfectly in reality knowing right from wrong AND NOT IN LEGAL TROUBLE. </p><p></p><p>The only people who don't know right from wrong are the psychotic and it does not sound as if any of our Difficult Child's on this forum are psychotic. </p><p></p><p>A mood disorder requires therapy and usually medication to get better and if you substance abuse, that nullifies the good effects of both therapy and helpful medications. I get frustrated sometimes because people who have not had a mental illness usually don't understand it. Also, not every "different thinker" is in any way mentally ill. And not everyone who seems "normal" is not mentally ill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 656691, member: 1550"] As a mental health consumer (Gawd, I hate calling mentally ill patients consumers) I can tell you that from being around so many people who are bipolar and otherwise mood disordered (from the hospital for ten weeks to self-help groups to groups lead by therapists) mood disorders do not usually cause delusions. Most of the folks I've met on my long journey have been perfectly in reality knowing right from wrong AND NOT IN LEGAL TROUBLE. The only people who don't know right from wrong are the psychotic and it does not sound as if any of our Difficult Child's on this forum are psychotic. A mood disorder requires therapy and usually medication to get better and if you substance abuse, that nullifies the good effects of both therapy and helpful medications. I get frustrated sometimes because people who have not had a mental illness usually don't understand it. Also, not every "different thinker" is in any way mentally ill. And not everyone who seems "normal" is not mentally ill. [/QUOTE]
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