My niece is bi-polar and it’s been a rough road for both her and her parents. She was also diagnosed in high school and went on the medication which helped her. She managed to graduate from high school and then college.

Recently, she decided to live with her then boyfriend, another bi-polar sufferer. About a week or so ago, he decided to no longer take his meds and just was all over the place. He quit his job, bought a gun, and his days were spent at the range. Now this is according to my liberal brother-in-law, my niece’s father, so I’m not sure how much salt to sprinkle to that comment.

Anyway, he became very erratic and finally my niece decided to move out and stay at a friend’s place. He packed up all his stuff and moved out west to live with his sister. If anything, this should be a lesson for those suffering from mental illness not to take themselves off of medication…. especially in severe circumstances.

My prayers are with you sonofdy. Keep your chin up and rely heavily on either your friends, neighbors, and family, or a support group. It will keep you sane.

You have my empathy. My husband refuses medication but I sure have needed it.

#36 September 26th, 2008 at 4:49 pm, wytammic

Cornell (besides being Ivy League) has one of the most beautiful campuses that I have seen – and I’ve seen quite of few. Good choice by your daughter. I just hope she doesn’t get brainwashed by New York liberals. I HATE it when that happens to good people from Wyoming.

My collie says:

How do you know that she won’t straighten THEM out?

Yes, dorms and colleges can be crazy places. But they can also be positively transformative.

Yeah, that’s the problem. See any post Michelle has made about the mandatory leftist indoctrination programs from the ResLife department at Delaware, where kids had to meet one-on-one with RAs to talk about sex and “social justice” and kids from conservative backgrounds were singled out for extra “education.”

Michelle, she met you when the College Republicans had you in. It was a real highlight — riding along taking you back to the airport. She even snapped a picture of a stupid liberal sign with her camera and emailed it to you at your request, and you posted it on your blog. I think it was 2005 – 2006 school year?

Good times good times.

On September 26th, 2008 at 3:12 pm, sonofdy said:

My wife asked my step-daughter that once. Sarah answered street whore. That devastated my wife.

::sigh:: yeh, I have to deal with Insane Clown Posse and Emo everyday

(for those out of the know those are derivitives of ‘The Cure’, Goth and Columbine, but are not the same)

I will never allow my kids to live in a dorm.

As a former RA (Resident Advisor) I can tell you that living in a dorm can be one of the best things for a college student. It allows them to get connected to campus, learn how to be more independent, and most importantly really learn more about themselves and what they can accomplish. Yes, dorms and colleges can be crazy places. But they can also be positively transformative. I have seen it first hand.

I hope you let your children decide what is best for them when the time comes. That’s really what it should be all about.

Okay, off my soap box. I just needed to get that off my chest.

If I can just get my teenage daughter past the “I dont want to be known as a nerd or a teachers pet” phase of her life…

Just in case I miscatagorized what I was trying to say – she loves being a closet nerd.

A friend of hers spent the night last night (I helped out another single dad that was traveling). When I asked the friend the same kinds of homework questions that I ask my daughter, the friend’s eyes glazed over.

My daughter lectured her, “You cant ignore him, he doesnt go away or give up until you have the right answer”

Baiscally my rules are:
) Learn it the first time and you dont have to learn it again the second time.
) If you have done homework on a subject and taken a test for it, then at any time during the school year, that topic is fair game for me to ask you questions about it. If you dont know the answer, then you will learn it again.

We’ve already been on the campuses of four major colleges over the last couple of months, even though she doesnt know what that means yet.

There are several good, smaller schools out there. You just have to know where to look. Like NR’s education issue. I graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in CA. Another really good school.

My 5 year old son is autistic.

There is alot of mental illness on my wifes side, we have 2 autistic relatives and they are both good people. Maybe this is why I relate to Palin because of her newest son.

I asked her one major question. ‘You’re 14 and you have done it all. So whats your plan? What are you going to do at 16 or 18 or 21?’

My wife asked my step-daughter that once. Sarah answered street whore. That devastated my wife.

I am becoming very despondent over the way young ladies are becoming socialized to think about themselves (ie: the Cornell “pubic relations is a case in point — since when did “feminism” embody spending “time, money and stress to pleae a guy” — doesn’t that viewpoint defeat the point of “feminism”) and how they now tear each other down. This isn’t “liberation”.