Children Of Bipolar Parents Community Group

This is a place where those of us who have Parents struggling with Bipolar.I have started this group because my Dad is very sick and I myself have so many questions and need support.So I figured I can't be the only one who is going through this tramatic time.Everyday I wake up hoping to hear the life and soul put back into my Father.It's been three months...

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Mrchippy 06/09/2018

I have been dealing with my own depression issues and a lot of it has to do with my mom's bipolar becoming worse. She isn't the same person she was a year ago and it's to the point where I feel like I dont even know her. She was my best friend and we talked about everything but now if I try to tell her anything she becomes mean. I just am not doing well with losing the relationship. I have been told that I have to keep my gaurd up with her which is so hard to do because shes my mom. Shes the one I shouldn't have to have my gaurd up around. Anythiing I say to her she uses against me in fights. I just don't know how to deal with this. She was the most amazing mom growing up and now I'm 21 and I feel like I don't even know her. I've always known shes had bipolar i just never thought I was going to lose her. I just don't know how to cope with it.

ambermay002 07/29/2018

I’m so sorry. I know how you feel. I have watched my mom suffer from bipolar since I was 13 I’m 30 now. She lives with my husband and I and has for 6 years as she can not work and is either up for a few days or in bed for weeks. She doesn’t take care of herself. Some days I feel as tho I’m watching her die and there’s nothing I can do. 4 years when I was pregnant she was in and out of the hospitals and I didn’t have the opportunity to enjoy that mother daughter pregnancy special experience. She turns my words around on me and sometimes has gotten really nasty with me. For me I had to come to some kind of closure as to this is my mom now however I miss the mom I grew up with. I look at it like this and I don’t know your moms behaviors but bipolar I know will eventually kill my mom but I try to look at it as if she has cancer that she’ll have her good days and bad days and for me I try my hardest to make the best of them. My heart breaks for you because I know how that feels it’s as if you’re grieving and which I believe you do when you start to lose that relationship.

mflower001 10/01/2018

I can completely relate to what you are going through, it is very hard. I am also 21 years old and growing up my mom was my best friend who I hung out with 24/7 and told everything to. But, for the past few years, it has been completely different as I find myself constantly on edge around her and I see our relationship disappearing.

clementine2013 11/03/2018

I also can relate to this experience whole heartedly and I'm sorry for everyone that has to go through with this. My heart hurts with you. My mom has suffered with bipolar disorder my entire life and to my memory I've only seen her sick once and it was when I was 7 years old. Im now 23 and recently I've been so pre-occupied with my own stressors that I have been crying for a week and half straight and struggling with my own mental health. On top of that, I just got a call from my family that she is sick again after managing her symptoms for years and doing so well. My mom is my go to person to talk to and I used to talk to her everyday about anything and everything. Now she is emotionally distant, mean and doesn't want to talk to me. Im looking into finding my own therapy to help me cope and maybe you could do the same. Again my heart is with you <3

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