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About seven weeks ago I met a twenty-five-year-old woman named Rachael who is bipolar and who is also dependent on drugs and alcohol. I remember hearing that in such situations, a person needs to get treatment for both medical situations and that mental health issues and chemical dependency commonly take place in the same person. Additionally, I remember reading that a history of unhealthy and abusive drinking, drug addiction, and/or mental health concerns frequently take place in the same family.

Evidently, Rachael is so overwhelmed by both of her medical conditions and her relationship difficulties that she in essence has little or no reason to accomplish much of anything. What is particularly unfortunate about this is that earlier in her life, Rachael finished three-and-a-half-years of college. Rachael’s circumstance makes me wonder if she is an illustration of an individual who has to hit the bottom of the barrel before he or she gets alcohol and drug addiction treatment that leads to lasting sobriety.

The Need For a Physician She Trusts and a Rehab Regimen She Can Believe In

If I were in contact with Rachael I could suggest a number of websites and blogs that could possibly help her locate information about addiction and alcoholic behavior, pertinent chemical dependency information, facts about alcoholism and drugs, info about addiction symptoms and alcoholism warning signs, and relationship information. In my honest opinion, however, Rachael needs to locate a therapist she trusts and a treatment regimen she can believe in and follow over the long haul. I could be in error but it seems to me that Rachael more likely than not needs to acknowledge the fact that she cannot drink responsibly or abuse drugs if she wants to get sober, stay sober, and start on the path to long-term recovery.

I am aware that there are quite a few recently discovered physician-prescribed medications that can help Rachael through her withdrawal symptoms, through the alcohol and alcohol detox process, and help her avoid a drug or an alcohol relapse. Clearly it would be in Rachael’s best interests if she learned about these meds.

It is apparent that Rachael needs to acknowledge the fact that there is utterly nothing productive about excessive and careless drinking and chemical dependency and that engaging in one or both circumstances is the map to a premature death, shattered relationships, deteriorating health, legal problems, financial difficulties, and poor work and school performance.

The Relevance of Support Groups Like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous

There are probably a lot of persons such as family members, other individuals, and friends who would want to help Rachael but she more likely than not would experience greater understanding from a recovery group such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous rather than listening to people who drink just a few times per year or who have never taken drugs.

When People Accomplish Things They Like and About Which They Are Dedicated

There’s a psychological attitude that affirms that individuals who do things they love and something about which they are passionate arrive at a fantastic place in life. Stated more specifically, when people do what they love, they hardly ever go through boredom or an uneventful life. If they involve themselves in something that is satisfying, moreover, they become more complete and experience more contentment and delight in life and in their relationships.

To me, this sounds diametrically opposed to a life that is centered in alcohol and drug addiction because such a lifestyle removes the contentment and joy that life has to offer.

Because Rachael doesn’t have the fortitude to succeed at doing much of anything in her life, it is apparent that she definitely needs some hope for a better existence. And the sad thing is that hope is almost everywhere around Rachael if she could only get to the point in life to get the counseling she requires for her manic depression and chemical dependency and remain in her treatment protocol.

More Meaningful Relationships, A Wonderful Life, Self Esteem, and Positive Change Are Possibilities

Rachael is simply too young to be crushed in life. She doesn’t realize this at the moment but if she can learn how to abstain from drugs and alcohol through alcohol and drug rehab and get the counseling she requires for her bipolar issue, she can redirect her life and start living with direction, passion, and with self-respect.

Stronger relationships, a meaningful life, self esteem, and positive change are certainly possibilities for Rachael if only she could get inspired to seek the medical rehab she needs, follow through with her treatment protocol, live her life in a drug and alcohol-free and healthy way, and acquire a more positive attitude about life.

We meet a lot of cultures, where there is this nasty stigma that is stuck to the phrase “mental illness, bipolar victim or Im a Psycho.”  If people hear you have a “mental illness” or tell them “Hi! I’m bipolar!” their first reaction can be shown in their eyes and then their body. Without thinking their body language will be slightly tense and tend to back away. In some cases even people who you consider to be friends tell you that they cannot handle it and leave after the disclosure. But there are others who will stick by your side through the nightmares that occasionally rear its ugly head. Adolescent bipolar victims need to stick with these friends who will stay in there for the good times and when bipolar symptoms are showing its worst effects.

Trying to Live the Symptoms

Adolescent bipolar victims tell us that besides the wave of emotions they are experiencing in the last several years or months, they also have great friends, a wonderful family, a place to call their own, have their wonderful rooms, pets and a wonderful boyfriend who loves them. But, even having all these they find little joy. There is a lot of energy trying to deal with anything. Little things such as the simple smiles, the eating, picking up the phone can  take a lot out of them. This is a sure sign they are slowly sliding downward toward the murky and dark depths of depression when this happens.

Other Signs of the Depression

Many bipolar children prefer to keep to themselves in their home or in a classroom environment, because there are hardly any good friends to talk to or even lend a listening ear to. Most of these adolescent children would prefer to go into their own little world and forget everyone and everything around them. In school they  would not eat, play and interact with the other children. Learning and paying attention to what the teacher is saying in the classroom can be very difficult because their brain is not in focus. Its like trying to fly a kite northward but the kite is going southwards because the wind is taking it that way. It is because the mind is in control and the situation is beyond their power.

Test of Friendship

Until they go through the same experience none of your friends knows what its like to be a young adolescent with bipolar symptoms. Not a nice thing for both the sufferer and the people who care about them is the experience of depression, hospitalization, suicidal contemplation, loss of energy, staying in the room for days only leaving to use the toilet or to go to school. A true friend is one who seeks help either in a mental hospital or seek diagnoses. They are also there to find out more about bipolar medication and what is happening. Stick by them because you will always have somebody to turn to if you have one or two good friends.

A Really True Friend

A good friend indeed who will eventually save your life is a  person who stays by your side through thick and thin even when your family cannot handle your symptoms.

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