Hello all, I'm new here.
I decided to join as I thought I would get advice from people with experience of having bipolar disorder. You see, my mum is bipolar, and for the last 4 years since my dad died, she's been getting along fine, with a few ups and downs, but all-in-all has kept it together. But recently, over the past month or so, she has been deliberately missing appointments with her nurse, going on spending sprees and has gradually been getting worse. On Sunday she had an episode of mania and threw most of the things in the house away, including our canary, painted everything with icing sugar and was being strange in every way. Eventually she tried to take our dog out and do god-know-what to her, so me and my older sister decided we couldn't take it any longer and stopped her before she got out with the dog. She then shouted at us, saying we were threatening her, left the house and called the police, saying we had tried to poison her and scratched her face(which she had done herself with a knife). The police were very nice and after a little chat took her into hospital. After she got to the hospital, we thought she was going to be admitted because she was completely off her trolley, moving things into the garage, throwing things away, carrying about a knife, etc. but after a 20 minute talk alone with the psychiatrist and doctor, she came walking out with sleeping pills and said she was not admitted. We (my sister, my aunt and I, the only close relatives to my mum, although my aunt lives 2 hours away) were outraged that she had been released! So, we took it up with the doctor, saying everything that happened, how we hadn't slept for 2 days because she hasn't slept and is always up, banging and emptying things into the bins, etc. but the doctor just said that since she knew what she was doing (3 hours AFTER she could have killed our dog and us) that he "couldn't admit her" and that it was "the nature of the beast" so after I had done screaming at the doctor, we all went home, my mum took the sleeping pills and the next day she seemed quite a bit better, albeit still tired. But today she has went back to how she was the day before she started throwing things out and brandishing the knife, and we're worried that she's going to go manic again, where there's no talking to her and she listens to no one. I've been having to miss school to look after her and our dog and I'm worried I'll ruin my life because of my mum. She refuses help and me and my sister really need help and advice.
Thanks for reading,
Adam.
I decided to join as I thought I would get advice from people with experience of having bipolar disorder. You see, my mum is bipolar, and for the last 4 years since my dad died, she's been getting along fine, with a few ups and downs, but all-in-all has kept it together. But recently, over the past month or so, she has been deliberately missing appointments with her nurse, going on spending sprees and has gradually been getting worse. On Sunday she had an episode of mania and threw most of the things in the house away, including our canary, painted everything with icing sugar and was being strange in every way. Eventually she tried to take our dog out and do god-know-what to her, so me and my older sister decided we couldn't take it any longer and stopped her before she got out with the dog. She then shouted at us, saying we were threatening her, left the house and called the police, saying we had tried to poison her and scratched her face(which she had done herself with a knife). The police were very nice and after a little chat took her into hospital. After she got to the hospital, we thought she was going to be admitted because she was completely off her trolley, moving things into the garage, throwing things away, carrying about a knife, etc. but after a 20 minute talk alone with the psychiatrist and doctor, she came walking out with sleeping pills and said she was not admitted. We (my sister, my aunt and I, the only close relatives to my mum, although my aunt lives 2 hours away) were outraged that she had been released! So, we took it up with the doctor, saying everything that happened, how we hadn't slept for 2 days because she hasn't slept and is always up, banging and emptying things into the bins, etc. but the doctor just said that since she knew what she was doing (3 hours AFTER she could have killed our dog and us) that he "couldn't admit her" and that it was "the nature of the beast" so after I had done screaming at the doctor, we all went home, my mum took the sleeping pills and the next day she seemed quite a bit better, albeit still tired. But today she has went back to how she was the day before she started throwing things out and brandishing the knife, and we're worried that she's going to go manic again, where there's no talking to her and she listens to no one. I've been having to miss school to look after her and our dog and I'm worried I'll ruin my life because of my mum. She refuses help and me and my sister really need help and advice.
Thanks for reading,
Adam.
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