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Originally Posted by Shazerac
 The insurance situation for mental illness sucks the big one !!!  I'm so sorry you're going through this with your daughter. I have insurance, but I have to pay out of pocket because I'm only allowed 4 visits a year on the insurance. If your daughter is an adult you have a incredible rough ride ahead of you. My heart goes out to you. My daughter is an adult with BP1 with psychosis. She left home because I was the spawn of Satan. She gets violent and attacks me. I finally had to refuse to let her live with me because I was afraid she would murder me in my sleep.
My heart is breaking for you and the difficult road you are facing. With all the new "patient rights" laws it is next to imposssible to force your child to get treatment or insist that the doctor gives her meds. If she says she doesn't want to take them you are facing a brick wall. Keep fighting to get her the help she needs but don't forget to take of yourself. |
Yes it does!! I think you're dealing with worse than we are... I'm sorry.
My daughter is 14 and has very obviously been battling bipolar since she was 7 (primary spotted it, but wanted to leave it up to a psych doc to dx). She is graduate to get on meds. She sometimes asks for mine for relief, and I've gotten to the point where I hide them. I don't blame her at all... when my mother went through this with me, she couldn't stand to watch me suffer and just gave in and gave me hers (she knew a lot and was giving "good enough" meds - mainly risperdal when I was getting psychotic or a sedative here and there when I could stop going), but my life is under a microscope with anti-med family and i couldn't bring myself to do it... besides, one thing she truly needs is an AP and I don't have any since I can't afford mine.
It sounds like things are very strained between you and your daughter... that must be so hard... and heartbreaking... I used to have nightmares about my unmedicated grandmother killing me when I lived with her, so I can relate there. That's terrifying. She would only take other people's meds.