How Can We Help Our Bipolar Child?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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What should Debbie be doing to help her 21-year-old daughter manage her bipolar disorder? Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:11.8	111. Debbie, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi, Dr Laura.
0:17.0	I am my husband's girlfriend and I'm also my kids mom
0:21.0	and it's one of those kids that I'm calling you about today. I don't
0:26.2	have a mom you have been my surrogate mom for years and I appreciate that and I'm
0:31.4	I don't really have anyone else to ask for advice about this
0:34.0	and I'm hoping you can help me. Okay. Okay my daughter as she's my daughter is
0:41.9	21 years old. She has been diagnosed with pretty severe
0:46.6	bipolar disorder. She sees a physician of psychiatrists regularly, she's on medication, but she's just doesn't grasp adulty.
0:58.8	I guess that she's 21 years old, tri-college, tri-beaut beauty school, dropped out of beauty school, goes from job to
1:07.8	job, not a lot of responsibility.
1:11.1	And we just don't know at what point our responsibility for her and her self-responsibility as an
1:18.7	adult should be picking in.
1:21.5	My husband... I suggest you meet... I suggest you meet with her treating physician with your
1:27.1	husband and your daughter and discuss all that. Okay.
1:34.0	Okay. That is the next step.
1:37.0	Okay.
1:38.0	Okay.
1:39.0	I can do that for sure.
1:42.0	Good. Because that's where decisions will be made. I can do that for sure good
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