Her explaining has happened a few times. I have studied mental illness in college, and even had a few temporary episodes that were situational myself over the years. I understand alot of what she's told me and have even explained things that I believed about it which she agreed with.

She has been officially diagnosed bipolar back in February. She was prescribed Abilify, but stopped taking it about two weeks later because she said all she wanted to do was sleep when she took it.

She has no insurance and wouldn't go back to the psych that diagnosed and began treating her and wouldn't talk to him in order to get a med change. She simply just walked away from it and things deteriorated from there.

The enabling means that I'm doing things for her that she could be doing for herself. That does neither of us any good.

Thank you for the book information...I'm going to look into it.