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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 588278" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Question as one with a mood disorder who is doing rather well and knows it was not caused by my dysfunctional family because bipolar is caused by heredity, not dysfunction, such as poor self-esteem can be. Does this friend comply with her medication? Does she refrain from taking illegal drugs? Does she try very hard to get stable in her therapy?</p><p></p><p>I was a mess in my 20's and my family was not great, but I knew I had been born this way. And I knew that to get better it would take a heck of a lot of hard work and medication compliance on my part. Does she do the things she is supposed to do in order to get better? It can take many years, but if you try and work hard you can usually (not always) get better. </p><p></p><p>Another questioni: Was she adopted as a baby or as an older child? Older child adoption can greatly affect how the adoptee attaches to the adoptive family. Sorry for being sensitive, but I'm an adoptive mom and I do have a Korean daughter. She came as a baby and is very attached to all of us. Now a child we adopted at age six from Hong Kong has left our family and would say we were abusive to him. It's not true and none of my other kids think so, but six is just too old to adopt a child and to expect him to attach. He is not bipolar, but suffered bouts of depression that he held inside pretty well until his 20's. 20's seem to be a bad age for people with serious issues.</p><p></p><p>I think...many issues going on with this person. What do you think, nerfie?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 588278, member: 1550"] Question as one with a mood disorder who is doing rather well and knows it was not caused by my dysfunctional family because bipolar is caused by heredity, not dysfunction, such as poor self-esteem can be. Does this friend comply with her medication? Does she refrain from taking illegal drugs? Does she try very hard to get stable in her therapy? I was a mess in my 20's and my family was not great, but I knew I had been born this way. And I knew that to get better it would take a heck of a lot of hard work and medication compliance on my part. Does she do the things she is supposed to do in order to get better? It can take many years, but if you try and work hard you can usually (not always) get better. Another questioni: Was she adopted as a baby or as an older child? Older child adoption can greatly affect how the adoptee attaches to the adoptive family. Sorry for being sensitive, but I'm an adoptive mom and I do have a Korean daughter. She came as a baby and is very attached to all of us. Now a child we adopted at age six from Hong Kong has left our family and would say we were abusive to him. It's not true and none of my other kids think so, but six is just too old to adopt a child and to expect him to attach. He is not bipolar, but suffered bouts of depression that he held inside pretty well until his 20's. 20's seem to be a bad age for people with serious issues. I think...many issues going on with this person. What do you think, nerfie? [/QUOTE]
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