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Old May 12, 2014, 01:18 AM
Anonymous37909
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Originally Posted by Rayne Selene View Post
I'm not. It's a long, complicated story...but basically I'm still on my parents' insurance because I'm in school, parents are divorced, dad controls insurance, dad is a jerk, changed the insurance without telling us, and now every single appointment is over $200, which I can't afford. My mom is on a teacher's salary, so she can't help either. My fiancé is in school, as am I. (We're planning to hold off the wedding until after we graduate.) My dad doesn't believe in mental illness, so he refuses to help me pay for treatment or medication. I went to the counselor at school and she laughed at me, so yup, not going back there again.
So I'm assuming that you're not getting treatment?

Do you have BP1 or BP2? The latter might be more manageable without professional treatment, since there is no mania/psychosis, although every case is different. And of course, I'm not saying that any kind of BP is "easier" than another, just that you might need fewer prescription-only meds with BP2.