{"id":2486,"date":"2011-03-24T19:42:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:27","slug":"julie-a-fast-family-and-partner-coaching-a-conversation-with-a-worried-mother-and-a-defiant-daughter-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/julie-a-fast-family-and-partner-coaching-a-conversation-with-a-worried-mother-and-a-defiant-daughter-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie A. Fast Family and Partner Coaching:  A Conversation with a Worried Mother and a Defiant Daughter pt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a sample conversation you may have experienced if someone you love isn\u2019t getting the help they need to manage bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Marcee is a 28 year old woman who has been in and out of the hospital since her early 20s. She can\u2019t hold a job, goes through constant boyfriends, drinks beer, smokes pot and gets very, very angry if anyone tries to talk to her about making positive changes in her life. Here is a sample dialogue:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mom:<\/strong> Marcee,\u00a0 I really need you to see how bad things are right now. You never leave your apartment and your dad and I don\u2019t know what do to. We\u2019ve tried everything. You refuse your medications and I know you\u2019re drinking again. What are your plans Marcee? We want to help you. We don\u2019t know what to do!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcee:<\/strong> (cuts off her mom and yells): Leave me alone mom! Just leave me alone and get out of my apartment. If you are going to go on and on about this, there is no point in being here. Why don\u2019t you go examine your own problems and just leave me alone?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why you\u2019re on my case. The doctors were not sure when they saw me and I don\u2019t have a real diagnosis of anything. Stick to your own life.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation continues below\u2026..<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a sample conversation you may have experienced if someone you love isn\u2019t getting the help they need to manage bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Marcee is a 28 year old woman who has been in and out of the hospital since her early 20s. She can\u2019t hold a job, goes through constant boyfriends, drinks beer, smokes pot and gets very, very angry if anyone tries to talk to her about making positive changes in her life. Here is a sample dialogue:<\/p>\n<p>Mom: Marcee, I really need you to see how bad things are right now. You never leave your apartment and your dad and I don\u2019t know what do to. We\u2019ve tried everything. You refuse your medications and I know you\u2019re drinking again. What are your plans Marcee? We want to help you. We don\u2019t know what to do!<\/p>\n<p>Marcee: (cuts off her mom and yells): Leave me alone mom! Just leave me alone and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/julie-a-fast-family-and-partner-coaching-a-conversation-with-a-worried-mother-and-a-defiant-daughter-pt-1\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11725,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/11725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}