recovering - I will look for that book. Sounds like an interesting read. Thank you.
susie - no, we are in TN like in my profile says. She had thought about community college but they wanted money up front and/or a transcript as well. She could "audit" a course, meaning she wouldn't get the credit and she refuses to put time in and not get credit for the course. To her it's wasting time. Additionally, her classes she likes aren't widely available in all the schools around here. They aren't business or tech classes. You see she is a classics major ( she's had 4 years advanced Latin, now 1 1/2 of advanced college level, 1 year greek, etc). She also takes literature classes so it's heavy on English courses.
So far she's doing a little better as the Lithium is lowering since we are weaning downwards after speaking to her primary dr at the beginning of the week before starting the process in prep for the new dr. Basically we were to cut the dose in half 1200 to 600. The surrealness is still happening but nothing like it was so I think perhaps the lithium. She is not so freaked out about it when it does happen either because she knows what's going on and she just comes and tells me about it and we talk a few minutes and it seems to pass within an hour now unlike before when it would last a lot longer and she'd obsess over it making it worse. The best part is she is not saying "this is why I don't want to take any medications and why I should just die and not have to deal with this the rest of my life". That has always been an issue with her, and I know often typical of BiPolar (BP) illness in how it often can make people feel.
I have struggled with her to help her see that she needs to find her purpose for living. She can't seem to ever see that there is a purpose for life, to live. No matter what I or anyone else have thrown out to her she finds a way to dismiss it. She is so darn intelligent she talks her way around it. *sigh*
