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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 557523" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>BKS,</p><p>If he is likely bipolar as your signature indicates, has he been diagnosed or ever on medications, etc.? I ask because when you consider what the future will likely hold for him as well as the future of your relationship, so much can hinge on getting the proper diagnosis and treatment, if in fact there is a therapeutic issue. I recognize that your son is an adult now, and you can't force the issue anyway.</p><p>When my son started using drugs at 15, his personality and behavior changed so radically, he was so hateful, vulgar, vindictive and manipulative, it was as if he was "taken over" by something. My sister in law informed me that mental illness usually manifests in adolescence, and can even emerge by drugs - and she urged me to have him evaluated. It's a long story, but he did not cooperate with the psychiatric. and he didn't stop using drugs. He was still a minor at that time. The psychiatrist felt he couldn't really assess whether he was bipolar unless he wasn't actively using. A year later, he finally stopped using long enough to be evaluated (not bipolar - I would've bet the farm he WAS), because difficult child finally acknowledged that he was miserable inside and out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 557523, member: 13882"] BKS, If he is likely bipolar as your signature indicates, has he been diagnosed or ever on medications, etc.? I ask because when you consider what the future will likely hold for him as well as the future of your relationship, so much can hinge on getting the proper diagnosis and treatment, if in fact there is a therapeutic issue. I recognize that your son is an adult now, and you can't force the issue anyway. When my son started using drugs at 15, his personality and behavior changed so radically, he was so hateful, vulgar, vindictive and manipulative, it was as if he was "taken over" by something. My sister in law informed me that mental illness usually manifests in adolescence, and can even emerge by drugs - and she urged me to have him evaluated. It's a long story, but he did not cooperate with the psychiatric. and he didn't stop using drugs. He was still a minor at that time. The psychiatrist felt he couldn't really assess whether he was bipolar unless he wasn't actively using. A year later, he finally stopped using long enough to be evaluated (not bipolar - I would've bet the farm he WAS), because difficult child finally acknowledged that he was miserable inside and out. [/QUOTE]
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