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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 730068" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Can she take medication? It seems she needs help to even out her moods. Honestly I used to get very deeplly depressed for no reason. One antidepressant decades ago suddenly normalized my mood. I don't get mixed states or depressed anymore....not to the point that it effects my life. Yet it took a decade to find that magic pill and for me it is. Will she not try? If she is bipolar or has any mood disorder you don't need a reason to get depressed and I suspect you can get manic for no external reason too,although I only got intermittently hypomanic (depression made me withdrawn and angry at myself and others but in hypomania I felt great and did not get irritable.) Those mixed states, which I haven't had since the medications, are a weird, uncomfortable, unexplainable combo of depression and mania at the same time, and are most apt to cause irritability and more. I don't miss them!</p><p></p><p>Although antidepressants are not supposed to help any kind of bipolar, that is the only medication that helped me without changing my basic personality, zoning me out or causing side effects. It does take time to find a good fit. Ten years here, but there are some new tests you can take now to help predict which medications will work. It is a cheek swab.</p><p></p><p>In her better frame of mind, can you talk to her again about trying legal medication with maybe a psychiatrist who specializes in pharmacology? That's who finally helped me.</p><p></p><p>I am usually calm now. Yes, extreme stress CAN destabilize me and that most happened infrequently around my family of origin interactions...that was very hard. But therapy helped too and I learned that while some people can deal with critical, toxic, blaming people, it is not healthy for me to do so. I always do what is best for my health. So I no longer will interact with the few still left. Your daughter can learn too about triggers.</p><p></p><p>There is so much help for mood disorders if that is truly what daughter has....but a real ability to calm the racing thoughts is medications and knowing your limits through therapy. You can't do it without intervention. It is part of your chemistry.</p><p></p><p>I sure hope she is someday open to psychiatric treatment and no street drugs.</p><p></p><p>Extra hugs. I really like you. You don't deserve to be sad. Truly you don't.</p><p></p><p>I stepped off the soap box now.</p><p></p><p></p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 730068, member: 1550"] Can she take medication? It seems she needs help to even out her moods. Honestly I used to get very deeplly depressed for no reason. One antidepressant decades ago suddenly normalized my mood. I don't get mixed states or depressed anymore....not to the point that it effects my life. Yet it took a decade to find that magic pill and for me it is. Will she not try? If she is bipolar or has any mood disorder you don't need a reason to get depressed and I suspect you can get manic for no external reason too,although I only got intermittently hypomanic (depression made me withdrawn and angry at myself and others but in hypomania I felt great and did not get irritable.) Those mixed states, which I haven't had since the medications, are a weird, uncomfortable, unexplainable combo of depression and mania at the same time, and are most apt to cause irritability and more. I don't miss them! Although antidepressants are not supposed to help any kind of bipolar, that is the only medication that helped me without changing my basic personality, zoning me out or causing side effects. It does take time to find a good fit. Ten years here, but there are some new tests you can take now to help predict which medications will work. It is a cheek swab. In her better frame of mind, can you talk to her again about trying legal medication with maybe a psychiatrist who specializes in pharmacology? That's who finally helped me. I am usually calm now. Yes, extreme stress CAN destabilize me and that most happened infrequently around my family of origin interactions...that was very hard. But therapy helped too and I learned that while some people can deal with critical, toxic, blaming people, it is not healthy for me to do so. I always do what is best for my health. So I no longer will interact with the few still left. Your daughter can learn too about triggers. There is so much help for mood disorders if that is truly what daughter has....but a real ability to calm the racing thoughts is medications and knowing your limits through therapy. You can't do it without intervention. It is part of your chemistry. I sure hope she is someday open to psychiatric treatment and no street drugs. Extra hugs. I really like you. You don't deserve to be sad. Truly you don't. I stepped off the soap box now. . [/QUOTE]
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