The shock therapy must have done some good because when Lisa was released she enrolled in college and graduated in four years time, went to graduate school, and became a professional in the medical field. She got married, primarily I believe, because she decided that it was the next logical step in the natural progression of her life. A year into the marriage she became pregnant while still in grad school. Lisa admitted to me one time she never really loved her husband, but she liked him well enough for a while, and had always wanted a child. Hence, the marriage.
Their marriage after a relatively short time was a sham. Sometime during the fifth year of the marriage Lisa began cheating on her husband, with both men and women. She’d spent so much time in school and working the crazy hours that medical professionals work that her husband did most of the parenting with their little girl. Both her ex and I have talked about it and we both feel that she did so because she really didn’t want to spend time with him due to the fact she probably never really loved him. It was a difficult thing for him to admit.
That Lisa had graduated college and grad school and gainfully employed was, for her parents, a minor miracle. When she was finally properly diagnosed by her therapists, whom she’d been seeing since the age of fifteen, and still does to this day, she began her now, daily regimen, of anti-depressants and mood elevating drugs. She still had many manic depressive bouts of behavior that were often fueled by drinking or caused her to drink. Lisa became another person when she was drinking. It was like an evil demon had surfaced and the things she said and did under the influence were awful, emasculating, emotionally damaging, and just plain mean. If you were the subject of her manic depressive/drunken rants it was not something you were likely to ever forget, even if, under the circumstances, you might forgive her. Yet, after awhile, those who had suffered her rants and BD-fueled behavior on a regular basis, typically her family and love relationships, began to wonder, as her father once suggested to me, where her illness stopped and her manipulation of those closest to her, began.
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