my family feels like i am never going to get better. i have been going to therapy, charting my mood, eating healthy, and doing anything and everything to make my mood better. i just dont understand why they dont trust me. i feel like just because i have a disorder they think im crazy. my moods have been improving i am taking all of my mediations. i know i am getting better and so does my boyfriend but my family is so skeptical. any suggestions??
Perhaps you can suggest to your family to attend a NAMI meeting and or workshop...
If your able look up NAMI on the web and find the one nearest to your family...it might give them insight to become more united in their support of your diagnosis.
But please...know this...I don't know you...but I am proud of you..you've taken steps to help yourself...take time to look at the positive in your life...because your worth that!
Babt Steps will work..
Dont give up.. on your family...they will see your progress...take one day at a time.
i know how you feel!!! i have all those same problems...no one listens to me honestly. they all think i am lying to them and to myself. they all think i have been misdiagnosed...i don't know why that matters so much to them, it is all the same treatments anyway. meds, therapy, ect...they think i am a schiz. and i don't know why. but all the dr.'s are saying biolar...anyway, i know how you feel. they can't tell the dif. between diseases. too bad for thier stupidity. and thank god they all treat me awfully as it is. but sometimes too nicely.
thank you for listening
darkangel
sherri
I'm not sure in what way it is that you are feeling they don't trust you or are skeptical, but I guess it really doesn't matter it all just feels like a bunch of unsupportive poop. Wow, I can't beleive you and darkangel both have that kind of thing, must be a lot of us have either felt that way or imagined it (you know our paranoid ways). I will tell you, when I was diagnosed and the clouds parted for me, I had been off drugs for years and maybe had a social drink occasionally but my father was angrily adimant that I was misdiagnosed and all I will ever need is AA. Mind you he's said this for years but it brought on a whole new wave, perhaps cause the spaz I'd had was causing my marriage to break down as well. My husband far preffered the diagnosis I got about a year later of boarderline personality disorder as the profile from my understanding basically sets the victom up to be a hater of mankind on perpose, and so on. (I should add which I forgot to the last 'question of week' that the pdoc also suggested I didn't need meds that being the case, riiiiiggggt). My aunt who I'm close with always talked to me as though I were totally nuts and i could hear it in her voice, I basically resigned to myself that not a single soul ever needs to know this about me if its going to be such a flippin disaster. So no one does, except now my boss cause I was so sick from lithium for a while.
I think people have resigned to settle down about it and accept now, it's not their life anyway, this is nearly 4 years later. I don't involve my parents in any personal talk at all pretty much, well I'm really and introvert in comparison which is weird actually and is a lot easier now that I am stable on meds, and my husband and my relationship is way better because of good meds too. This is not to say my motivation for life is gone, I'm back to school like you and never thought I could do it before (no attention span) doing something way to intelligent for me! Give it time, you will feel better and then they will see the difference. But it has to be for real.
Well it is like they say, you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.
I know it's a pain to gain the trust of people when they are not to be trusted in the 1st place, and I guess that may be the situation...
I didn't told my family about my disorder because I would have the same reaction as you did. All I can say is for you to keep taking such good care of yourself as you are and stay strong. Thank god you have a good boyfriend by your side, which is needed.
It's their problem, not yours. You already have to deal with so much.
Don't let their problems be yours and move on, you are not responsible for them. Their obligation is to support you and look after you but I guess they have different priorities...
Hey life is too short, be happy with what you have, you have support here and people who care for you too. Be proud of how much you have accomplished and live your best life, don't let them put you down.
Alex
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"i have been going to therapy, charting my mood, eating healthy, and doing anything and everything to make my mood better. i just dont understand why they dont trust me. i feel like just because i have a disorder they think im crazy. my moods have been improving i am taking all of my mediations. i know i am getting better "- moppy91
if you know that you know that you know AND you are truthful in that you are doing all things needed and are seeing and feeling improvement overall... then that is what is most important
you keep doing that
eventually, maybe, at some point down the line, perhaps, maybe... the skeptic family will come around.. maybe, who knows?
give it time