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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 656784" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Hope and Joy, I thank you for this true post. Bipolar mania and drug induced mania are different and having drug induced mania does not mean you have bipolar disorder, which is greatly misunderstood. </p><p>My daughter was diagnosed with "bipolar" when she took drugs too and she had moodswings like crazy. Well, eleven years alter and no drugs and her "bipolar" magically disappeared.</p><p>It is not the same thing at all. You can definitely trigger bipolar symptoms by using specific drugs, espeically speed, meth or heroin, but that's the drug, not real bipolar.</p><p>And even if one IS mentally ill, like I am, you have to take care of yourself to stay well. It is not an excuse. It is an adult's responsibility not to even smoke pot or drink while on psychiatric medication. Duh, that wipes out the effects the curative drugs can have when you mess it with other substances. And you have to take your medications without making a fuss over it, just as you'd take them if you had epilepsy or cancer. And only the person can keep going to therapy and learn ways to cope and help himself. The onus is still on the adult child. No excuses in my book.</p><p>The only mental illness that could be considered one where the person needs family help to get better is schizophrenia, a thought disorder that causes one to see and hear things that are not there and that even lower a person's cognitive functioning. These are the only people who are truly "out of their minds." I don't think I have ever read any adult child here who was schizophrenic. None of our kids are.</p><p>Unwilling to do squat to help themselves regardless of their problem is how Dr. SWOT diagnoses them. And we are sick too if we keep enabling dangerous or bad behavior in anybody we love. We have to stop it or BOTH of us will be sick, but it won't be called bipolar. Codependence is more like it for us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 656784, member: 1550"] Hope and Joy, I thank you for this true post. Bipolar mania and drug induced mania are different and having drug induced mania does not mean you have bipolar disorder, which is greatly misunderstood. My daughter was diagnosed with "bipolar" when she took drugs too and she had moodswings like crazy. Well, eleven years alter and no drugs and her "bipolar" magically disappeared. It is not the same thing at all. You can definitely trigger bipolar symptoms by using specific drugs, espeically speed, meth or heroin, but that's the drug, not real bipolar. And even if one IS mentally ill, like I am, you have to take care of yourself to stay well. It is not an excuse. It is an adult's responsibility not to even smoke pot or drink while on psychiatric medication. Duh, that wipes out the effects the curative drugs can have when you mess it with other substances. And you have to take your medications without making a fuss over it, just as you'd take them if you had epilepsy or cancer. And only the person can keep going to therapy and learn ways to cope and help himself. The onus is still on the adult child. No excuses in my book. The only mental illness that could be considered one where the person needs family help to get better is schizophrenia, a thought disorder that causes one to see and hear things that are not there and that even lower a person's cognitive functioning. These are the only people who are truly "out of their minds." I don't think I have ever read any adult child here who was schizophrenic. None of our kids are. Unwilling to do squat to help themselves regardless of their problem is how Dr. SWOT diagnoses them. And we are sick too if we keep enabling dangerous or bad behavior in anybody we love. We have to stop it or BOTH of us will be sick, but it won't be called bipolar. Codependence is more like it for us. [/QUOTE]
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