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I'm really upset right now and don't really know where to turn.
My aunt's partner is bipolar, like me. However, her bipolar disorder is worse - she has psychotic symptoms. Evidently for the past week, she hasn't been doing well. She's been taking her Zyprexa, but it hasn't been helping her. She wound up calling her therapist and her doctor, and they wound up committing her to one of the local psych hospitals.
I feel so...upset. She plays with her meds, because she's a physician's assistant and thinks that it's okay to do that. That it's okay to sometimes not take her meds.
I'm trying to hold it together at work. Obviously this isn't something I can readily talk about.
I haven't talked to my therapist in a good...ten months. Things have been going really well. I don't know whether to call her or not. I've been weathering things by myself pretty well. I'm only seeing my psychiatrist right now, and that's just for med management.
I'm just...I said it before, but it's true. I'm so upset. I can't figure out what the best thing I can do for is, outside of helping my aunt take care of their son. I feel like I want to do more...there's something else I should be able to do. But I don't know what that is.
It reminds me of when I was hospitalized, almost three years ago. I remember what it was like. But I don't know how to help.
I'm being kinda repetitive, and I'm sorry about that. My thoughts are a little disorganized right now.
My aunt's partner is bipolar, like me. However, her bipolar disorder is worse - she has psychotic symptoms. Evidently for the past week, she hasn't been doing well. She's been taking her Zyprexa, but it hasn't been helping her. She wound up calling her therapist and her doctor, and they wound up committing her to one of the local psych hospitals.
I feel so...upset. She plays with her meds, because she's a physician's assistant and thinks that it's okay to do that. That it's okay to sometimes not take her meds.
I'm trying to hold it together at work. Obviously this isn't something I can readily talk about.
I haven't talked to my therapist in a good...ten months. Things have been going really well. I don't know whether to call her or not. I've been weathering things by myself pretty well. I'm only seeing my psychiatrist right now, and that's just for med management.
I'm just...I said it before, but it's true. I'm so upset. I can't figure out what the best thing I can do for is, outside of helping my aunt take care of their son. I feel like I want to do more...there's something else I should be able to do. But I don't know what that is.
It reminds me of when I was hospitalized, almost three years ago. I remember what it was like. But I don't know how to help.
I'm being kinda repetitive, and I'm sorry about that. My thoughts are a little disorganized right now.