BM wants to diagnose everyone!
The BM of my 3 mostly lovely stepchildren always wants to diagnose them...
The oldest has Asperger's.
The youngest (14) is really acting out...not handing in homework, cutting class, not obeying my DH when he gives punishment, etc. She was also caught smoking pot...
BM says she needs to be on Lithium...BM is an alcoholic who has been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and thinks she (diagnosed by herself and her Mother) may also be Schizophrenic...
I guess I put myself in SD14's shoes and would be acting out too (not a good student, Father, the only parent she has been able to count on, gets married, SM expects her to clean up after herself, etc.)
My thought is, the deck is already stacked against SD (BM abandoning them for a man she met in Rehab when she was about 6 ot 7)...she needs Professional help and not her BM diagnosing her and labeing her before a professional.
This is so hard to watch...
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Ugh. My BM wants to throw
Ugh. My BM wants to throw meds and therapy at SD14 rather than parent. Thanks to BM's histrionics, SD14 is a little bit over-dramatic, but NOT depressed like BM insists she is.
Being a teenaged girl is hard on everybody, and SD14 isn't acting out, not to the degree she could be. All she really needs is someone to take her concerns seriously. She came to me more than once over the summer asking if she was normal, and telling me she did NOT want to go back to therapy.
Poor kid.