Getting ready to un-enroll D from he high school, we have to turn in all her books, and the house is a mess because we are painting their bedrooms this week and all the stuff from their rooms is all over the house. So D is gone to take her last final exams, and I am looking for one missing textbook we need to return, and look in her backpack. I find a couple of small books she's forgotten about returning - then open a pink book I think might be another schoolbook. Turns out to be a journal - and dang, things are worse than I thought. Other drugs (need to send that urine specimen in to the lab NOW!!!!), cigarettes, alcohol - amazing how much bad stuff a kid can cram into so few hours!!!!! Really, this is a kid who has had pretty good supervision 98% of the time - that 2% is a KILLER!!!
Sad to say, but I think thwere is something very seriously wrong with my D - beyond the obvious of depression and the eating disorder, like possibly bipolar or some other serious mental disease - this just seems so beyond normal teenage stuff.
There are some people who think that there's a higher incidence of bipolar disorder among kids with EDs. And as I've mentioned before, I've often thought of my H as having possibly a mild form - in that he would have mild depressions interspersed with a generally "hypomanic" very active, energetic, hyper-productive usual state. Not abnormal, really - but just to the far end of the bell curve. Now of course I wonder about D. Could she have a more severe form?
Yuck, yuck, yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I'll go to xerox her journal pages so I can bring them to the counseling appointment we have with her psychologist tomorrow ( H and I and D).
Time to get that keystroke logger on the computer too.
Cross your fingers for us all - the next few years are about to get REALLY BUMPY!!!!!!!!
