
Family & Friends of Bipolar Support Group
This community is dedicated to parents, siblings, grandparents, other relatives and friends of someone who is Bipolar. The purpose of this community is to help families and friends develop greater patience and understanding, as well as maintain a positive, caring relationships with those diagnosed as Bipolar.

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I'm BP, and I just recieved news that my niece just had a suicide attempt. Her parents, knowing that I've struggled with depression my entire life want me to come over and talk to her about it. I think they expect me to tell her ways to cope and how to deal with (a possible) clinical depression... How do I give advise on something I don't even know how to deal with? I know her mother is vehemently against the idea of "medicating her children", so if it does turn out to be BP, I'm not to sure I could convince her to take medical action even if her crap insurance would cover psychiatric... I'm really at a loss on what to say today, so any advise would be extreamly helpful. I have no idea what to do here...

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Srry, I posted this last night and for some reason didn't see that the post went through. Please ignore this post and go to "First Signs"
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