Thanks to all who replied to my previous post on my daughter. She is on different medications and is home from school for the next two weeks until we can get her mood strait.
Some of this would be the actions of a typical teen . For her life is different. She doesn't have stability because her moods fluctuate to the point where her medications just stop working. She cannot functions when they do.
It isn't like anyone can just pull up their bootstraps and straiten up when the poles shift. One day you are happy and have hope about your future and the next you are in such a deep hole you can't see any light. Its then that you get desperate and start grasping at straws.
I have a friend with a brother who was bipolar. Sadly he didn't survive the illness. He killed himself in prison.Her stories of him are much like my own with my daughter. He terrorized her until his arrest. He would stare up at the ceiling for hours and his room was always dark. His only friends were GI Joes.Who wants to be friends with someone who is "normal" one day and dancing in traffic the next?
She said he played russian roulet with her when he became angry. She didn't know from one day to the next what he would do next. He unfortunetely followed the only crowd in school that would accept him. When they all robbed farm fresh he joined them. He got 15 years no parole. After 9 he hung himself in the cell. No one cared about this kid enough to get him help. The parents were too busy pointing fingers at whose fault it was that he acted that way. No one was willing to go to bat for him.
I do go to bat for my daughter daily. When the school comes against her or the law I will fight them until we can reach a comprimise somewhere. I have heard that bipolar people on the right medication can still work and live. I have seen her function for as long as 6 months before she stopped taking her medication.The lesson she learned is when something works don't stop taking it. She wants to help teens like her when she grows up.
I am in my second year of college in criminal justice. I too chose to work with juveniles like her. Maybe I am a glutton for punishment but my hope is kids like my friends brother do not get overlooked.These parents need an advocate. God knows they could at least use a friend. I have only one who understands what its like in my house.
Peace to all of you.No judgements please.We are all different. In order to have world peace we are simply going to have to accept that we are not all alike and not meant to be. We have to learn tolerance.These people are lonely and need friends.
