How much to push 18 yo son
I have a son with bipolar 1 that has been home from residential 6 months and unmedicated but mostly stable/a little depressed (low energy). He seems a little delusional too still, he had a big manic episode in October and hasn’t completely recovered I don’t think.
He isn’t doing anything. All 3 of his previous inpatients happened after working full time for 1-2 months. He has good work ethic when he has a job but I think the full time work pushes him into mania.
I am not sure how much I’m enabling him, I’m pretty sure if I push him to get a job he will just be manic again in a month or two. He is up stairs in his room
About 20 hours a day. He cooks after I go to bed, usually plays a board game with his brother in the evening, and will go to a store or out in nature with me a couple times a week.
He’s pleasant when he interacts with us, and he’s mostly just reading. I turn the internet off from 10:30-5 am so I know he’s not on devises too much.
I’m kind of at a loss of what to do. I don’t mind him living here but this can’t really be healthy right?
He stopped seeing his psychiatrist a month ago and stopped all meds 3 months ago.