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Prison visit with difficult child 1 didn't go well
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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 631752" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>My dad was untreated bipolar, my sister and my daughter suffer from depression, and difficult child is schizoaffective. I've had couple of episodes of hypomania, and a couple of depression. Thank goodness the depression cycles ended at some point in my 30's or early 40's. I was terrified of their recurrence for years. </p><p></p><p>Regarding the hypomania, it feels frieking fantastic. I get very excited and excitable, make grand plans, spend too much money doing things like booking travel, buying clothes. I make bad choices about what to say and what to do. When it starts I can actually feel it spiralling up inside me. It feels wonderful, wild, and exciting.</p><p></p><p>I have never taken medications, although I frequently wondered if I should for the depressions. The hypomania I was slower to recognize as a problem. Now I don't use any drugs at all (and haven't in 2 decades or more), don't drink much, get a LOT of exercise and very regular sleep. That seems to be enough, although sometimes I spot check with the people around me to be sure they also think I'm ok.</p><p></p><p>A classic interaction with difficult child when he is off medications would be as follows </p><p></p><p>difficult child (earnestly): how do I seem? do I seem manic to you?</p><p>me (cautiously): well, honey, honestly you do seem a little manic.</p><p>difficult child (shouting" WELL I"M NOT!!!! I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE!! I AM FINE!!!</p><p></p><p>and so it goes. </p><p></p><p>Echo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 631752, member: 17269"] My dad was untreated bipolar, my sister and my daughter suffer from depression, and difficult child is schizoaffective. I've had couple of episodes of hypomania, and a couple of depression. Thank goodness the depression cycles ended at some point in my 30's or early 40's. I was terrified of their recurrence for years. Regarding the hypomania, it feels frieking fantastic. I get very excited and excitable, make grand plans, spend too much money doing things like booking travel, buying clothes. I make bad choices about what to say and what to do. When it starts I can actually feel it spiralling up inside me. It feels wonderful, wild, and exciting. I have never taken medications, although I frequently wondered if I should for the depressions. The hypomania I was slower to recognize as a problem. Now I don't use any drugs at all (and haven't in 2 decades or more), don't drink much, get a LOT of exercise and very regular sleep. That seems to be enough, although sometimes I spot check with the people around me to be sure they also think I'm ok. A classic interaction with difficult child when he is off medications would be as follows difficult child (earnestly): how do I seem? do I seem manic to you? me (cautiously): well, honey, honestly you do seem a little manic. difficult child (shouting" WELL I"M NOT!!!! I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE!! I AM FINE!!! and so it goes. Echo [/QUOTE]
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