Bipolar?

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Bipolar doesn't usually hit someone until they are in their late teens or early twenties. I'm sorry you have a child with it.  How old is your child and is he/she on medication to help?

Anyway, I have bipolar so I feel for your child. It's rough to live with sometimes.

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Oh jeez. And 13 is a tough age anyway.

Medication works for awhile, but then the affect wears off.

I hope she'll be ok soon!!

[auntie]

I'm sorry you're in a bad place right now.

My aunt, sister and my sister's younger DD have/had bipolar. Things are better with the new meds if the person does well with and agrees to take them. My sister and aunt are no longer with us, my niece refuses to get off recreational drugs long enough for a psychiatrist to start her on a legitimate rx tx plan. She failed a drug screening that was a condition of either parole or probation and is back in jail for 6 months.

One of my good friends has bipolar and is really well controlled and thriving -happy marriage, two kids and ABD in her doctoral program. She found a scholarship through Eli Lilly Co. that paid for much of her grad school. You might want to keep this in mind for your DD-

www.reintegration.com/resources/scholarships/apply.asp

edited to correct the gender of your child.

Cutting seems to be more and more common in the middle school years. Another of my friends just got her DD released from a RTF because of cutting. She had some more serious ideation as well. One of my other nieces cut in high school. She has bipolar as well but is doing pretty well.

[spedrunner]

my brother was autistic as well as bipolar.........i feel your pain.  I would always try to get through those tough times by telling myself as bad as it is for ME to see, just imagine what it must be like for him  

Hang in there. I knwo its really tough.  My brother would go through manic phases that were just pure awful. No eating, sleeping, constantly upset etc etc etc

What are your issues? How can we help?