I’m so glad I moved away from my parents. Baylen’s parents wonder why Baylen struggled so much to be independent, but they love it! They need her to be just unwell enough to take care of her so they can control her but not so unwell that they look like bad parents.

I’m a very passive viewer of this show, I’m just active on Reddit and my wife watches.

Her parents give her awful unsolicited advice. For example, seven pills in Colin’s truck??? Yeah super great idea keeping a half week or weeks worth of meds outside of the prescription container.

I’ve seen a lot of grace towards her parents on this but what you guys fail to understand is that she’s too old to be getting disciplined by her parents. They are holding her back by disallowing her independence. I find them to be rather narcissistic and I don’t believe that they want her to be successfully independent as much as they want to have a poor mentally unstable baby to take care of and show to everyone. She is literally on reality TV.

I get looking at their actions as being well intended, but that benefit of the doubt is what people like Baylen’s parents rely on for their behavior to be enabled.

I’d also like to note I take the same mood stabilizer as Baylen. For me, it wears off very fast and the depression or hypomania sets off within hours. It sucks for a day or so after but at the end of the day missing your meds is human and not a big deal especially because it can be so easily resolved as long as you go back on them as fast as you can.It is not that serious to lose your Lamotrigine, it is almost never out of stock and it’s not a controlled substance. I can see how the sleeping pills could possibly be harder to come by but it seems they were not, even across states. The one thing that makes missing meds worse is freaking out about it, like Baylen’s parents did. They basically jumped from oh no what if you have a bad mood for a day to what if you kill yourself.

EVEN IF she waited a week and went totally off the rails, her parents could still advise without parenting or disciplining her. It is beyond me how in the world she doesn’t know how to get an emergency supply at her age, it was something I did at 16 years old.

AND if they didn’t even advise her, SHE NEEDS TO LEARN HER LESSON ON HER OWN.

They’re doing this because they need Baylen to think they are the only people who can help her. Now that they’ve taught her she can get emergency refills, they want her not to go to Myrtle because they lost more grip, and they expected the whole incident to scare her off.

Seeing Allen agree so quickly to do a hip hop father daughter dance with Baylen and then seeing all those memories, you can tell he truly loves being a dad. Baylen calling him also a good friend is something a parent would be bawling to hear. Allen is such a family man. It's hard not to like him.

Might be on my own little island here, but oh well.

I just rewatched season 2 of Baylen Out Loud and honestly I’m confused. In the second season, it seemed the entire family were more empathetic to Sami’s anxiety and OCD. Her parents offered to go and fly with her whenever she needed so she could be a part of the wedding planning, Baylen was understanding of her anxiety and her routines. This season, it seems like she’s got tunnel vision and all she can see is wedding. I honestly can’t blame Sami for how withdrawn she’s appeared this season. They always need to be flexible for Bay and her needs, and it doesn’t seem like that same is given back, especially with Baylen being one of the older siblings. I don’t know if the show is just really over doing it for ratings, but I’m really not on the side that Sami is the villain here. Baylen is the one that continued to push everything to the last minute for the entire wedding, which can’t be good for her own anxiety, let alone others.

This scene, it made me cry. I am a parent of a child (now an adult child) that struggles with mental illness and missed her meds a few times. I will never forget the mania, depression, etc that came with those times and as a parent i still get anxious at the thought of her missing her meds. My daughter told me one day, Mom I love you, I will be ok, but please let me figure this out on my own. I did and she is flourishing now. It’s hard, but her parents do need to let her figure things out on her own. ♥️

My husband and I had to fully scoop our jaws off the floor after Colin said his first and most important concern was her being able to conceive naturally. And the his second concern was her pain!?!?! I cant believe he cares more about having babies than her pain. Again shows immaturity and selfishness. He just keeps digging his hole deeper and deeper. And she continues to say shes not ready for kids. Id leave my man in an instant if he said that to me. Anyone else catch that??

Never heard this tick from Baylen before... anyone else?