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Originally Posted by Lobo  Friends,
I'm not sure if you can help me with this or not but I'm what is a mother to do if she won't listen to reason.
I posted about her change in medication to Lithium and got a lot of good advice.
Well, today she said she is not taking the Lithium and she is not calling her doc. I can't make her do anything. She is very irritable and cranky. She warned me of that. Said she is not irritated at anyone, just miserable being off her meds. She is very afraid to take the Lithium because of how it made her feel and act. She was out of control and those symptoms stopped when she stopped taking the Lithium. So, now she is taking nothing and she is very miserable.
Should I just let her go and make her decision to take control when she is ready? Can someone like her make a rational decision? She doesn't even want to talk about it to me.
I just want to help, but she won't let me.
Help.............Lo |
(((Lo)))
I've heard similiar stores about Lithium, seems to work miracles or have the adverse affect. Well don't they all.
I have bipolar and I really feel for my Mom, over the last few years I'm sure, no I know she's been worried that she was going to lose me.
I know for me, when I am really down I don't want my Mom around and I withdraw from her because I don't want her to know I'm in that much pain, because I know it hurts her more than me.
At one point I checked my self into a hosp. for suicidal thoughts and I tried to hide that from her, but she found out.
But "for me" when I do that, it's always when I need her the most, but I will Always push her away as much as I can, and try and hide from her.
I wish I didn't but I hate to hurt her.
I guess what helps me is that she just never gives up, lol, she gets mad at me sometimes, but just knowing she's there, always gives me strength.
My step sister has severe bipolar, worse, way worse than me. My parents did end up having her committed, it wasn't easy, and at times I thought were all going to lose our minds over her. She was a handful. The courts were hard to deal with, but in the end that is the only thing that saved her. They put her on meds and when she didn't take them, she knew she would have to go back. She couldn't make decisions on her own without her meds, her best thinking drove her to do things that were not good and she wouldn't have made it.
Those are just my experiences. I am the same way off my meds, but I know the line, once I'm on that suicidal mark, I know I need to get help.
Bipolar is a terrible thing to have for the person w/it and everyone around them, we are like ticking time bombs that no one really knows how to difuse ever... I'm sorry you are going through this.
I think if you see her get to a point that really scares you, don't hesitate to pick up the phone and call the police on her.
Someone did that to me, a really good friend who is like a brother to me,
when I pissed him off, he thought I was suicidal, well I was and I told him I was, I had a bunch of pills, but I wasn't going to take them, but I wouldn't let him take them home.
He gave me a choice, either he was going to take my pills home, or call the police on me.
(They were my meds, prescribed by my doctor?? derr)...
But..... He did THE BEST THING he could have done.
I WAS PISSED off at the time...
But he knew I wasn't thinking right, and he couldn't handle me.
That is exactly what I would do, and what I have done to a couple
of friends.
Make the police earn your tax dollars if you need help.
