Posted by stresser on June 24, 2005, at 22:01:29
In reply to Re: My daughter, posted by justyourlaugh on June 23, 2005, at 22:15:23
Mara,
We just found out that our daughter (17yr) is Bipolar II, last Dec. It took us about two years to get that diagnosis, and I was relieved to finally get it. She was depressed, anxious, intollerable, and had mood swings like a light switch was being turned on and off. I never knew who was going to walk through my door when she came home from school. When she started school as a freshman, she made straight A's. By the end of her freshman year, she was getting C's, and we knew something was wrong. Her current psychologist at that time told me she WAS NOT Bipolar, and we continued to stay with him. Things didn't get better, and we couldn't live with the stress, and constant disruption. Her depression grew more intense, and she kept saying she just wanted to die. I knew there was something wrong, and this wasn't normal. I spent hours on the internet, looking up information on Bipolar, and medicaitons. It was killing both of us, so we searched for another doctor. With luck, we found a psychologist and a psychiatrist that work along together to treat her. She took an MMPI test, and much to the psychologist's suprise, she is Bipolar II. The psychiatrist told me he thought she was, at her first visit. I was amazed at the things he told me about her! The things he found out about her from the test told him things that he would know if he had lived with her for 17 years! She is now on four medications, and doing much better. It is long journey, but one I wish we hadn't waited so long in changing doctors. Her grades improved to A's within two weeks of adding one medication, and we are slowely getting the others leveled out. I don't want this to be overwhelming, just informative. Get information! You need a correct diagnosis so that you can get correct treatment, whatever it is. She needs to be on the right medication, or therapy so she can get on with her life. College is around the corner, and you want to have these things ironed out before she moved on. (to whatever she does after high school) If you need to talk more, Please Babble me! I will send you my e-mail! -L
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