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05/27/2008 11:43 AM
boredsilly
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The single most important thing to remember is that your husband's child has a twenty-five percent chance of getting bipolar. Are you really willing to put a child through that kind of torture and misery? I have bp, I'm well treated with medicine and therapy, and even on the best of days I really, REALLY wish I had never been born. If my parents had known there was any possibility they could pass this on, I would have happily murdered them in their sleep for condemning me to a miserable life that I don't want. Are you prepared to take that chance?
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05/27/2008 12:35 PM  Top
bejeweled
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I think it is up to my girlfriend whether she wants to have a baby BP or not. Her parents were not BP but she has it. I know there are statistics. Not having a baby, if you are stable and life is good seems ok to me. The issue is stability. There are plenty of BP parents on this site that seem do ok with raising their kids. I doubt any of them, including the ones that have children with BP, would say they wished they never had them. My girlfriend and I raise my two children and her brother. So technically we already have three kids. I would have a baby with her in a minute. IF she was stable which right now is.....not really. We'll see what happens. I am not writing her off. Just taking things slowly to see how the medication and therapy work. It is going to take a long time to get all of this straightened out.
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