naturalgyrl5199
Well-Known Member
I think everyone is trying to find sympathy for her. But IRL I'm pretty sure the problems started WAY BEFORE 2018. You wait. Someone is going to say it.
An Uncle?
His son (her cousin?)
Pretty sure there are other women in that family with bipolar disorder. I also think had this not happened she would have eventually had a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Someone dropped the ball somewhere and the family isn't telling all. But hindsight is 20/20. There were numerous attempts for her to even address her own problems. Other than having 24/7 care what could you do with a person who cannot take care of themselves including prevent manic episodes? Cause that's what they are.
We also need better access to care and a populace in all sectors better equipped to deal with it. It should be as easy to get as a physical exam. People come to the hospital I work at all the time and they have a dictionary full of mental health issues. They see a psychiatrist if they are acting out, threatening to self harm, and get a sitter. Its extremely difficult, added on to a short staffed team nation-wide. They have a right, and do often refuse medication that can help, AND many are uninsured or under-insured, homeless or transient, between jobs, and many feel so bad on the medications they reluctantly stop taking them. Its a never-ending cycle. Early diagnosis, identification during the teenage years would help bc they are still under parental care.
But parents can be their child's own worse enemies. Pediatricians don't necessarily know or understand either so responses depending on the doctor to get a referral can be slow. Or the child is misdiagnosed with something else related but misses the mark.
In her situation, nothing could have prevented this because she tried the way people with her kind of family support, her intelligence can try. But she had too much going on and this was a "when situation." Not "IF."
An Uncle?
His son (her cousin?)
Pretty sure there are other women in that family with bipolar disorder. I also think had this not happened she would have eventually had a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Someone dropped the ball somewhere and the family isn't telling all. But hindsight is 20/20. There were numerous attempts for her to even address her own problems. Other than having 24/7 care what could you do with a person who cannot take care of themselves including prevent manic episodes? Cause that's what they are.
We also need better access to care and a populace in all sectors better equipped to deal with it. It should be as easy to get as a physical exam. People come to the hospital I work at all the time and they have a dictionary full of mental health issues. They see a psychiatrist if they are acting out, threatening to self harm, and get a sitter. Its extremely difficult, added on to a short staffed team nation-wide. They have a right, and do often refuse medication that can help, AND many are uninsured or under-insured, homeless or transient, between jobs, and many feel so bad on the medications they reluctantly stop taking them. Its a never-ending cycle. Early diagnosis, identification during the teenage years would help bc they are still under parental care.
But parents can be their child's own worse enemies. Pediatricians don't necessarily know or understand either so responses depending on the doctor to get a referral can be slow. Or the child is misdiagnosed with something else related but misses the mark.
In her situation, nothing could have prevented this because she tried the way people with her kind of family support, her intelligence can try. But she had too much going on and this was a "when situation." Not "IF."
