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How families transition from managing to supporting medication independence

Our family has been managing my brother's bipolar medication for years and now he wants more independence with it, but we've all become so enmeshed in his treatment decisions that we don't know how to step back without feeling like we're abandoning him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family system struggling to evolve from caretaking to support as autonomy increases.

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“Where Are You with Medications and how they work?”

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