I wanted to explain......Part Two

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Back to my daughter. We have finally found three medications that mixed together and tweaked for the right amount have given her some semblance of normalcy in her life. Her manic episodes are far less than they used to be and do not last for as long as they used to. I am very thankful. Before these medications were found she would have manic phases that went on for months. One such one occurred back in 2009 when my granddaughter was still living here. She and my daughter got into some argument and so my daughter got mad and announced she was moving out of here. Well, we knew we couldn't afford to stay her on our own and so we moved out and found a little one bedroom we moved into. We lived there for three months. During that time, I saw my daughter once or twice and to see her in her manic all of the time and my grandson who was ODD at the time it was horrible. Out of control and both of them very weird. She had been living with her boyfriend. Finally, after these months, my daughter broke down and pleaded with me to move back and we would live in the apartment again. Well, luckily the apartment had been left and we were able to move back in. We were very lucky because we didn't have to pay for the three months we had not paid rent on the place and just had to pay up on the power and get it reinstated. That was all. We were very lucky! I had my daughter sign a document that I had written stating how her manic phases affected us(me and her son) and several other things I added before I would move back with her. She also had to get back on her meds and see a counselor. All things I made her do before I moved back in with her. I still make her re-read it on occasion when she gets bad again. Then we went on an odyssey of trying to find a medication that worked for her. That was in 2009 and it is now 2016. She had been on these medications for probably about three years now. So that means it took us four years to find some that actually worked. But, let me reiterate here......Medication does not erase the disorder. It brings the person to a balancing place in their life so they can deal with it and have a more positive and productive life. They may still have bouts of the disorder but, it is less pronounced and doesn't last as long. The medication helps, it isn't a complete fix. I am so thankful the meds doc found a combination of meds that are helping my daughter. She has probably taken everyone imaginable. It's been a long road and she is finally finding some normalcy. It is just that when she is going through a manic phase that I have a lot of stress and I write here to relieve that. Thank you to each and every one of you for listening and caring enough to respond with your ideas and opinions. I just wanted to make things clearer about the situation and its history. Thanks for reading. I hope this explains a lot you may or may not have understood before.