She was diagnosed with depression in Aug of 02...this after about a year of extremely distructive behavior. The official diagnosis was Dysthymia...but that doesn't matter much when she is sporadic about her therapist and doesn't take her medication.
For some reason, it seems very important to her to feel like she's "handling" this on her own. Of course, from where I sit, that translates into just ignoring the problem and hoping it will go away.
Part of me feels like if I don't say anything, she'll go on in this stage for the rest of her life and I don't think I can deal with that. Another part of me thinks if I force the issue, it my drive her into treatment. But it might backfire too. That really worries me. It's hard to begin to describe some of the "episodes" she's had, I wish her therapist or doctor could have seen them. I'm not allowed to talk to them.
