Caring for a child with bipolar disorder is really not easy. Obviously you see the seriousness of the problem of your child’s noncompliance with therapeutic medications, and doctors are equally attentive to medication compliance in bipolar patients. If persuasion does not work, discuss with your doctor the specific reasons why your child does not want to take his or her medication. The problem of compliance can be solved by finding the specific reasons and relieving the child of his or her concerns. For example, if a child is afraid to take a medication because he or she has read the instructions, that means the child does not have a complete understanding of how to use the medication or how to understand it. Some of my outpatients are also intimidated by drug instructions. Generally, I would tell them that a detailed and complete drug instruction manual will not only explain the effectiveness and indications, but also introduce drug-related side effects or adverse reactions, which will alert patients to possible risks and facilitate our early detection of possible side effects and timely response and treatment. Just like traffic accidents and congested road reports, which will alert us to possible high-risk situations, we still go out for normal activities and do not reject modern transportation because of these possible risks. The second issue, in fact, has become similar in nature to the first. We (including parents and doctors) cannot and should not be “all things to all patients” and patients cannot and should not be “all things to all people”. Rather, we need to find out what the specific problem is, so that we can turn the big headache into a breakthrough.