advice needed - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

Ruth50 · 10-27-2007, 09:00 PM

I know I am not supposed to be posting on this site because i am not the bipolar person. But I don't know what to do or where to turn and I found this site with google. Please bear with me.

My daughter is bipolar. She hasn't had an episode in a long time.

She has a 7 year old son and she is currently having an episode. I am worried about his well being. What can I do? I feel helpless. I feel scared. I am very worried. I don't know where to turn.

tony72 · 10-27-2007, 10:03 PM

I don't know what to say... I'm so sorry. I would post at the Relationship health board... I know there are people there in your same situation. I hope you get some answeres soon. Daisey

goody2shuz · 10-28-2007, 01:35 PM

Hi Ruth....try visiting the Parenting Board...there are a few of us moms who have kids who have been diagnosed with BP offering support over there.

Hope you find us...(((HUGS))) ~ Goody

bezzichick · 10-28-2007, 06:04 PM

Hi Ruth

Could you not look after her son while she is having this episode? Is it a manic episode she is having?

Ruth50 · 10-29-2007, 06:13 AM

She is not letting me take him. Which is highly unusual. I am always taking him for overnights, doctor appointments, dentist appointments, clothes shopping, hair cuts etc etc.

Yesterday when I offered to take him she looked at him and said "he wants to stay with me, don't you? His normal reaction would be, Yeah I want to go to grandmas. Instead he remained silent. He is caught up in her mania somehow and conflicted about what to do.

She is isolating him and says she is not sending him to school today and that she is not going to work. I am going over there to see and if he is not at school I am going to have to call in the authorities. Something i was hoping to avoid. I do have papers granting me custody if she becomes incapacitated again. (7 years ago she was hospitalized for months with schizo-affective disorder and I had custody of him for a year.

Thanks for your help