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Hi everyone, new to this site...but not a newbie to the problem. My son is 16 and has been diagnosed with "mood disorder" but is medicated for bipolar. He is in alternative school because public school could no longer handle or tolerate his outbursts of anger. My son has me feeling so alienated from my entire family. He has these fits of anger then does not own up to his part in these episodes that my family doesn't want to be around him. I feel as if I'm defending him all the time. I hate feeling so alienated afraid to take him around my friends, family or in public. You never know what will set him off...... The therapist is a joke, I lecture him, school lectures him, my family lectures him telling and now the therapist lectures him. He needs someone he can talk to.......but than again he chooses not to share his feelings till he explodes. I'm feeling as if I'm on a boat with a slow leak......drowning.
i am a single mother of a 23 year old daughter who has been suffering from bi polar disorder for the past 9 years. I have tried medication, natural healing, sports, music, dance, yoga and every possible method to help her deteriorating situation. She is unable to complete college, having dropped out of a presitigious university and is finding it very difficult inspite of good doctors and mediation to concentrate for more than 5 seconds on anything. Is there any new mediation in the US market that I should know about? I am feeling desperate and very alone in this.
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