Bipolar Disorder Support Group
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My daughter is 17 years old and does everything in the book to drive me crazy, what can I do? I find my self feeling very impotent, because if I touch her I may end up in jail. On the other hand, my not doing anything is making me feel like a helpless idiot. She sends my stress levels up, and I don't want to start cycling again. I have Bipolar II and feel like her only mission in life is to send me to the "loony bin" Anyone have any advice?
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I can't imagine that happening to another set of parents. My son, who is lucky to be alive, is 21 and he still does bullshit. I thought it would go away with the terrible twos??? But it just gets worst each year.
I need one of those bumper stickers that say, "Hire a teenager, while they still know everything!"
I am very pro sobriety, but if you have a teenager may I suggest a few slugs of rot gut? Perferably something in the 300 proof.
That is the only hope we have. It is more hopeless than our BD. :^)
And if you can't handle that you may need to send her to another room and tell her you will talk to her after she calms down. Be firm and strong. If you are having an argument just keep calm and keep insisting she do as you instruct with out letting her past you. Eventually when she sees she can't win she will do what you insist. Also sometimes it's helpful if you tell her to do something with the expectation that she will do it.
Because if you expect her to disobey and fight she will disobey and fight. You might be surprised. I've done this to my ex and it worked every time. That's how I got him to sign papers when I was trying to get my children enrolled in mitlon hershey shcool he was very against it. He tried to fight me at first but when I handed him the paper and told him to sign it with the expectation that he would, low and behold he signed it.
And one last word of advice I know this sounds crazy but let her make her own decisions. If she wants to have sex you aren't going to stop her so put her on the pill tell her to use condoms and the rest is up to her. It's the only way she's going to learn her own lessons faster, not only this but having her own decision making power might scare her straight. Trust her to make good decisions and she will.
and if she's doing something illegal let her go and call the cops on her. Also call the police and ask what you can do legally as a parent. When my mom was having issues with my brother running away in our state they said there was nothing she could do. And she had to provide a way for him to get into the house in
case he would come back.
That's really all I could tell you right now because I don't know the specifics of what you are butting heads on. I know it's a scary world for parents because legally parents are held responsible for our teenagers actions and legally there is little you can do to control them.