Is My Friend Odd Or Bi-polar?? Posted: 03-28-07 00:18am
I have a 30 yr old friend that I feel may
have ODD (oppostional defiance disorder).
She will argue with anyone and everyone
about EVERYTHING. For example, if we or
she and anyone else agree to go to a
restraunt she will always want to go
somewhere else and if everyone agrees to
go then she will change the place and want
to go somewhere else. She will change the
place over and over just to be difficult.
She will also ask specific questions that
she knows will cause a problem or
arguement and that you can't possibly give
an answer that will make her happy. She
looses her temper and will throw tantrums
if she gets really mad (including hitting
her husband). She often does this in
front of her children but will blame it on
whoever she is mad at-that they made her
act that way. Nothing is ever her fault
and she is impossible to reason with. She
oftens makes things up and twists the
words of others around in order to cause
conflict. Her daughter has been
diagnosed with ODD. I can not find any
information online about adults with ODD
and have been told that maybe she is
bi-polar. She has lost all of her friends
(she dumps them when she doesn't get her
way) and her husband is about ready to
leave her. I don't know if she has a
disorder or if she is just a hard person
to get along with. I really feel she
needs help but am not sure how to go about
talking to her about it. Any suggestions
would be helpful.
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Stan
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Posted: 03-28-07 10:40am
Doesn't sound like any form of bi-polar,
so I wouldn't worry about that. If she
had that she'd be having long bouts of
serious depression where she may attempt
to commit suicide. It does sound like its
possible she may have oppositional, all of
the symptoms fit and she meets all the
criteria as stated in the DSM-IV. As for
help this is unfortunately one of the
hardest disorders to work with. As far as
I know, there is no medication to help it
and since it usually does not lead to
physical harm for either the person doing
it or their friends/family there is
nothing you can do about it. They have to
be willing to seek treatment, but cannot
be forced.
