Stephanie Beilin

Given the genetic predisposition on my husband's side of the family with bipolar disorder, the psychiatrist felt it was indicated to get him on a variety of medication to manage some of the racing thoughts and some of the issues of the anxiety and depression.

You know, when it did take some time to manage the medication, I mean, that is never easy. We felt like he was doing great. He was highly functional, had friends, was really very, very successful in many different areas. Being from New England, he went to one of the NESCAC goals, played football for four years, traveled the world, studying international studies, worked as a teacher, coach, mentor.

You know, when it did take some time to manage the medication, I mean, that is never easy. We felt like he was doing great. He was highly functional, had friends, was really very, very successful in many different areas. Being from New England, he went to one of the NESCAC goals, played football for four years, traveled the world, studying international studies, worked as a teacher, coach, mentor.

You know, when it did take some time to manage the medication, I mean, that is never easy. We felt like he was doing great. He was highly functional, had friends, was really very, very successful in many different areas. Being from New England, he went to one of the NESCAC goals, played football for four years, traveled the world, studying international studies, worked as a teacher, coach, mentor.

Then he decided to go to social work school. and an Ivy League school, did really, really well. And even though he was doing really well with all of these areas, one thing that I may have overlooked is how he felt about having a diagnosis and how he felt about always having to manage his medication and some of the side effects around that medication. So what he did, he took himself off medication.

Then he decided to go to social work school. and an Ivy League school, did really, really well. And even though he was doing really well with all of these areas, one thing that I may have overlooked is how he felt about having a diagnosis and how he felt about always having to manage his medication and some of the side effects around that medication. So what he did, he took himself off medication.

Then he decided to go to social work school. and an Ivy League school, did really, really well. And even though he was doing really well with all of these areas, one thing that I may have overlooked is how he felt about having a diagnosis and how he felt about always having to manage his medication and some of the side effects around that medication. So what he did, he took himself off medication.

And when he was 29 years old, kind of like at the peak of career, not the peak, but certainly an entry point of having of what could have been a very successful career path, took himself off medication, had his first psychotic episode. which was frightening for him, frightening for my husband and I. He was not living in the area. We drove right down.

And when he was 29 years old, kind of like at the peak of career, not the peak, but certainly an entry point of having of what could have been a very successful career path, took himself off medication, had his first psychotic episode. which was frightening for him, frightening for my husband and I. He was not living in the area. We drove right down.

And when he was 29 years old, kind of like at the peak of career, not the peak, but certainly an entry point of having of what could have been a very successful career path, took himself off medication, had his first psychotic episode. which was frightening for him, frightening for my husband and I. He was not living in the area. We drove right down.

We managed crisis teams, doctors, police intervention, all of the above to get him hospitalized because we were that fearful for his safety.

We managed crisis teams, doctors, police intervention, all of the above to get him hospitalized because we were that fearful for his safety.

We managed crisis teams, doctors, police intervention, all of the above to get him hospitalized because we were that fearful for his safety.

So that was the beginning of being in and out of hospitals, periods of being super compliant and having a lot of success around that and living independently and managing his life. But whenever he started playing with his medications, eventually coming off the medications, it has wreaked tremendous havoc. And the sad part is that you know a little bit about the town we live in.

So that was the beginning of being in and out of hospitals, periods of being super compliant and having a lot of success around that and living independently and managing his life. But whenever he started playing with his medications, eventually coming off the medications, it has wreaked tremendous havoc. And the sad part is that you know a little bit about the town we live in.

So that was the beginning of being in and out of hospitals, periods of being super compliant and having a lot of success around that and living independently and managing his life. But whenever he started playing with his medications, eventually coming off the medications, it has wreaked tremendous havoc. And the sad part is that you know a little bit about the town we live in.

There's very high standard for how people should function and how they should behave. Kind of like that very staunch New England expectation. Every Everyone has to function at a thousand percent, a thousand percent of the time. And he had to come back home to get some support and regroup and all of that.

There's very high standard for how people should function and how they should behave. Kind of like that very staunch New England expectation. Every Everyone has to function at a thousand percent, a thousand percent of the time. And he had to come back home to get some support and regroup and all of that.

There's very high standard for how people should function and how they should behave. Kind of like that very staunch New England expectation. Every Everyone has to function at a thousand percent, a thousand percent of the time. And he had to come back home to get some support and regroup and all of that.

And he did well for a while, as I said, moved out, had his own apartment, but eventually had to come back in because off medication. There were just so many encounters with various police departments that happened. did not display sensitive behavior and mindful behavior around someone with a neurobiological medical condition. They really weren't interested in hearing that.