The Unknown Daughter

Chapter Two~ The Diagnosis

|Eleanor's POV|
--20 minutes later--

"Ford?" a nurse called, stepping out into the waiting room.

"Yes" I waved her down myself and pulled Brandi up with me.

All three of us made our way up to the nurse, who then escorted us to a separate hospital room. After checking Bran out, a few minutes later her doctor came in.

"Good evening" he said, taking a seat in the desk chair. "What seems to be going on?"

"Hi yes, I've been noticing that my daughter goes through a lot of major mood swings" I told him.

"Yes and they are very major. Like she goes from being happy to livid and breathing fire at the snap of a finger. It's absour" Denis piggy backs off of my statement.

"Why do you have to be in here?" Brandi asked him after his comment.

"Is there a problem with me being here. I just wanna get you some help"

"No! You're not my fucking dad and you never will be! Get that through your fucking head!" Brandi snapped.

"Young lady! Don't you talk to an adult like that, you know better. And you better stop cursing or your getting the soap treatment when we get home" I scolded her.

She sat back in her chair and folded her arms in a pout.

"Okay um. Well sir, would you mind stepping out while we do our procedure. Only because I need my patient to be as comfortable as can be" The doctor said to Denis.

"Sure" he replied and got up to step out.

"Now, Brandi is it?" he turned to her.

"Yes.."

"Tell me about your mood swings"

"Um-- I really don't experience my mood swings like the people around me do. To me it's just me...being me"

"Oh okay. Well how about you, mom? How often do she have these mood swings?"

"Often. Almost every day now" I said.

"And how long do they last?"

"Maybe about a few minutes, they're kind of short"

"Hmm. And when did this all start?"

"Well...I remember her switching between happy and sad as early as the age of 5"

"Does she sleep a lot...or maybe not sleep at all?"

"Yes both..."

"How about attention?"

"Yeah Brandi loves her attention" I smiled at her, seeing her blush.

"How is your memory Brandi?" he asked her.

"Bad. I forget things a lot" she shrugged.

"Do you have a lot of friends?"

"Yes and no. Some of them don't like to hang around me all the time. But I do have some friends"

"Hmm. Well these all sound like symptoms of a Bipolar disorder to me. Maybe in some case severe manic depression"

"Depression?" my eyes widened.

"Yes, Bipolar is both being depressed and being extremely happy both at times that's....unrealistic. Which can lead to really bad mood swings, in which I think your daughter is experiencing"