Newbie with a few support questions
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| Tue, 12-14-2004 - 11:04pm |
Hello everybody. My name is Emily. I'm 19 and just got the digonsis back last Friday (Dec.10) that basicially confirmed I am bipolor and not dysthmic like my doctor had orginonally thought.
Right now though, it seems like the absolute wrong time to be asking for help. It's exam week at school and everybody there is 10x more stressed than they already are the rest of the year (I'm in college), my best friend as basicially told her to leave her alone after a series of bad choices and wrong things said on my behalf and my mom still believes I'm over reacting to the smallist situations because I don't know how to grow up. It truly feels like the only person I can open up to is my 13-year-old sister and I'm not agist or anything, but I really don't want to burden her. I am seeing a counciler, a tdoc (I think that's what you call them here) and a physician, but they're not always around and I can't just go to them.
I guess my question is: how to I make the important people in my life understand just what's going on and tell them just how much they're hurting me by telling me it's either a) not their problem or b) I just need to grow up? And most importantly: how do I go about this without hurting anybody?
Thanks for your time.
Edited 12/14/2004 11:08 pm ET ET by missemilyjane

Emily,
Your question has got to be one of the hardest things to deal with when first diagnosed.
Kristen
Mom to 8 wonderful children!
Loriann Melissahttp://lilypie.com/baby1/060521/1/16/1/-5