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Well I did it. My husband and I kicked my 20 yr old bp daughter out of the house. She maybe in mania right now, but this is effecting my own triggers. Ideation of suicide is in my thoughts.
I feel like a complete failure. She needs a wake up call to her behavior. I just dont know how to get her to accept her meds and go to the pdr.
I am extremely worried that she may do something really stupid.
Reasoning is has been tried time and time again.
I am truly at a loss. She has cost us an arm and a leg in overdrafts and speeding tickets and such. Not coming home but to change for days at a time. I cant live like this. I have to reclaim my self and home for my own sanity, I am really scared for her and I love her very much. Does this tough love really work or is it just going to get worse?
I feel like a complete failure. She needs a wake up call to her behavior. I just dont know how to get her to accept her meds and go to the pdr.
I am extremely worried that she may do something really stupid.
Reasoning is has been tried time and time again.
I am truly at a loss. She has cost us an arm and a leg in overdrafts and speeding tickets and such. Not coming home but to change for days at a time. I cant live like this. I have to reclaim my self and home for my own sanity, I am really scared for her and I love her very much. Does this tough love really work or is it just going to get worse?
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I hope it works well for you too and plz don't try to second guess yourself. You did the right thing, even if it doesn't feel like it at this time.
Is it wise to kick a mentally ill person out of the arms of safety?
My opinion is a very high no!
See all those street people? Most of them are unmedicated mentally ill.
I do not know if she is mentally ill or not.
If she is mentally ill I would have better suggested a lock-down and extreme forms of help.
Sounds like she was running rampant. Without any control or structure.
I would simply disagree with your choice if she is mentally ill because I am bad mentally ill and in need of help over my head.
I am not recieving that at home and it is not good.
I cannot take care of myself and need help like a child.
It is just a simple fact.
Obviously, if my brain was working right, I would need no help and could actually have a normal life.
But the facts are the facts and I have no clue how I have been able to go to work over the past few years unless co-workers were loo0king out for me.
My wife and I are at odds and major problems are upon the horizon. She does not nor will not nor cannot comprehend how sick it is that I really am.
What are we to do?
That's a really hard-core form of tough love, though.
You need to take care of yourself, and then you might be able to help her.