If you love your man, and he gets abusive, what do you think is going on? If you consult a ‘family worker’ you’re likely to be encouraged to leave him. Sometimes this is the right advice. But if you know in your heart (or your brain) that this man is usually loving and caring and fun to be with, where do you go? Many women are intimidated by their ‘family worker’ and act on their advice. I once subscribed to the same view that ‘bad behavior’ was, simply bad behavior. But my direct experience changed my beliefs.

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For the past several months, I have been getting drunk just about every day. I finally started going to AA, and I haven’t had a drink in three days.

Now, I’m hypomanic. (I have bipolar disorder, II.) I used to need alcohol to sleep, so I haven’t been sleeping a lot. Can stopping alcohol cause mania?

I am currently engaged to my partner… We were planning to get married in August. I knew he was bipolar from the beginning so I dont blame my ignorance on him. He is currently medicated and trying to sort out what works for him. His mother is also Bipolar and treats it with drugs and alcohol. His outbursts are getting insane and he is buying things on credit with money he doesnt have. He is making friends with random people and then buying them all sorts of things. I know he is trying and I dont want to be the person that lets him down because he didnt choose this and hes trying to treat it., But I am really at a crossroads with what I need to do vs. what and how much I can personally stand.

I’m bipolar and I am off my medication (lithium) I am drinking, not exactly frequently but when I do I tend to go too far. Is this making my condition worse? will meds eventually cure me or are they making me just as dependent on them as alcohol is? because given the choice I will choose scotch.

My ex is coming to visit the kids and hasn’t seen them in about a year. He is suddenly interested now that I am happily remarried. In the past few months he went to alcohol rehab and was diagnosed with bipolar, adhd, and ocd. He is on lithium. Should I let him take the kids alone for his visit? How should I handle this?

I was diagnosed as Bipolar II. I’ve tried a lot of different antidepressants but there is nothing working better for me than alcohol. I am not an alcoholic and I contol my drinking knowing it is not the way. I drink once a week four, five light beers, but they can work wonders the day I am drinking and the next day. There is no antidepresant or mood stabilizer that could made me feel so normal like alcohol, why???? I am so frustrated. Also, when I am depressed and anxious I have a preassure headache in my right eye, my eyes feel heavy and I blink a lot, I’ve checked with eye doctor, everything is fine. When I feel better, my eyes feel fine, is that normal?

I have a son with ADD. His visits out of state with my ex-husband ruin his progress at school. Why should I let my son be pulled out of school for an extended weekend on Labor Day just one week after school goes back for the fall? This ex-husband has drug and alcohol problems, untreated bipolar, untreated abuse issues in his past…..

My son has never had to interrupt his school year before since I am primary residential parent. Due to my desire to marry again, I didn’t fight hard enough to have full custody (the state we lived in then had joint justody by default) and now regret it….
Labor Day is not a specified visit date per the divorce decree anyway….
BTW, ADD is usually what kids with bipolar are diagnosed with because of their age. Sorry but ADD has nothing to do with bad parenting……Spanking makes bipolar and autistic kids worse, explorer idiot. Just move if you don’t like kids!

Anything that I try I get addicted to. I was diagnosed with manic-depression 8 months ago, and for a time it seemed to answer alot of questions for me. But I see that in my life, everything I’ve tried, (cigs, alcohol et centra) I’ve become addicted to. Is this the bipolar or just me?

Did it influence you in anyway with sho you chose to be with? What kind of woman you want in your life? My mother was bipolar, hypersexual…on drugs/alcohol and had addictive personality…

I chose to marry a wife that was almost the same as my mother? We are now divorced and I am a single father after she cheated and left…and I keep attracting females with addictive personalities?

Did your mother affect you this way?

Here’s my full question: Have you or anyone you know of had SPECT Brain Imaging at a specialty place, such as Amen Clinics, OR any other place that does this, for psychiatric evaluation of disorders such as ADD, ADHD, Depression, Bipolar, head trauma, Dementia, drugs/alcohol abuse, etc. and got the insurance company to pay all or part of the cost?

It is well over $3,000 and they make you pay up front, providing you with only a walk-out receipt for (possible) reimbursement from the insurance carrier. On the Amen Clinics website, it says that some insurance carriers will reimburse but not all. However, I have read some websites where some people said that their private health insurances don’t cover it and have yet to find anyone’s testimony on the internet saying that it was covered (except for one, whose doctor wrote a letter of necessity to the insurance company).

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