Argh. My mom is in town this weekend....
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Argh. My mom is in town this weekend....
| Sat, 10-08-2005 - 12:34pm |
10 minutes into the car ride home she tells me that I was misdiagonosed and that she just does not believe in such an intangible diagonosis. Thanks mom that helped.
Why can people be so dumb? Why did I want to stop taking meds because I was misdxed. My mom is not a doctor, 3 doctors have confirmed my dx. Why do I listen to my mom at all. Dh is very mad about it as is my sis, the two I confide in and acknowledge me getting better.
Missy


Missy,
Your mom problem just doesn't want to accept the fact that her "baby" has a "mental illness"--because of all the misconceptions that abound.
i had no recollection of the events that landed me in the hospital but she made sure to remind me in a very accusatory manner.
i got a little monetary windfall & my mother wanted to tell me what to do w/ it.when i got the guts to tell her to leave me alone about it that my new dr. cost so much that even he said he wasn't sure i would be able to afford him she shot back with...how does he know what you can affford?who is he?blah blah blah.its very very hard to realize that our mothers are not really in out best interest.at least you,like myself have a husband on your side & you are very lucky to have your sister.
Good luck with mom--I was lucky that my parents were really accepting....my uncle is bipolar so they knew all about it (and actually beleive it exists). It took my husband almost 2 years of me taking meds to acknowledge that I might actually need them and that I am a better person on them. Some people will never accept it because they are ignorant and or they refuse to be educated. Just KNOW that you are doing the right thing by taking meds and taking control of your illness. Try to ignore her comments....how long is she staying for????
Amanda
Having people in your life who do not understand is very hard. I am lucky in that my mom (just on antidepressents-so still manic), uncle, grandmother (mostly depresssed), aunt, cousin, and myself are all bp. However, she thinks my ds, 6, will grow out of his. He may, but not holding my breath. My cousin who is now 24, was on meds as a child, now she has been cured. But she is an extreme overachiever - and very moody - and a bit standoffish with new people (paraniod), but yet cured. She was dxd at 6 also. My mother would have been dx as a child - very obsessive and manic (could get violent) She realized she had a problem when she threw the vacuum at my brother and ran up 20,000 in cc debt. We had a great christmas, lol. So I grew up with an unstable bp mother. She will not admit she is bp - but knows she needs meds.
Jen
I'm so sorry...that must have been very hard to deal with.
God could not be everywhere, so