Quote: For some reason, it seems very important to her to feel like she's "handling" this on her own.
yes darlin, i sure hear you on this one. my husband is bipolar - with rapid cycling periods that are simply hideous, i seriously don't know HOW he survives them
that is where compassion needs to come to play. they for some reason see the need to do this without meds, so of course it's going to take a longer time than if they would treat it with dr's and meds
kinda like an big scratch, you know it's gonna heal, someday it will, but it goes much faster if you treat it with things, instead of letting nature take it's course, but nature will eventually and it does get healed...