greg123

For what it's worth I have contact with this to an extent, not much useful I can tell you here than the following:

1) Somking pot means you ARE doing drugs, further more long term use of canabis ELEVATES highly the risks of developing bi-polar and other MH disorders, it's quite common from canabis use over the years.
2) Stephen Fry just made a great tv series about being bi-polar, he has it, and explored it and visited others. See if you can get a copy and compare symptoms/learn useful stuff.
3) MH issues are compount, additives and diet can be causal as much as mental state. Also stress is a factor, what kind of life does she have? Would a health freak say diet is perfect? You may be able to help out.

Good luck!

Greg.

Econo-Box

I go threw the same thing everyday with my pops and it sucks dude, i know exactly what you are going through. It sucks to go yoru whole life thinking you dad is superman and sometimes he just has bad luck. then you start growing up and realizing that the reasons dad has for not working or whatever are starting to turn into excuses. then all of a sudden its like 7 years later and my dad spends like 10 hours disassembling lawn mowers to take to the scrap yard. i say ---- like "Why dont you go get a job instead of burning 2 days fo work for less than half a days pay?"

Truth be told. i dont think he wants to get a job cause of his child support issues, he knows he will get to keep like half or less so he doesn't.

The day you wake up and decided that you do not like, agree or condone what your father is doing with his life, is a mind ----.

now he just got a 25 year old prego. best part is Im 25 and trying to have kids soon, so thanks dad now your prego girlfriend gets to be at my wedding and I get to have a kid about 1 year out from you. even worse is trying to deal with my dad without getting an out of control sense of resentment.

Hope it makes you feel a bit better knowing that others have twisted *** ---- going on too lol. wasnt trying to take away from your story, just wanted to share.

Tom-Guy

I see a lot of bipolar people who get seriously fucked by blood sugar. Eat small amounts frequently, eat healthy, avoid empty carbs and unnatural sugars.

Greg, it's obvious you're a bright guy and you mean well, but you are a n00b and you haven't posted any ------- **** yet. Get with the program before you get hazed off the site.

96turboracer

My mother in law is Bi-polar, she's on quite a few meds and most of the time it seems to work. Every now and then though she drops off the deep end for a bit. A few weeks back she was utterly convinced there were bugs everywhere she went, and that they were biting her, when really the rash was from the medication she was taking. She wouldn't sleep in her own house anymore, was angry with her husband because she felt nobody would beleive her. It went on like that for two weeks and we were all starting to get concerned. Then one day she was fine, knew there were never any bugs, and hasn't had a problem since then.

I won't claim to understand it, but I guess the best you can do is be understanding, even when it's tearing you apart to see them like that.

Donald125

what is bi-polar? some sort of double personality thingy?

johnmichael

here's an analogy for everyone:

happy/reasonable/normal is the ceiling in a room

batshit/erratic/crazy/nuts is the floor

mom's mental state is a rubber bouncy ball. throw the ball as hard as you can and there you have it.

Tom-Guy

Not quite. Happy/reasonable/normal is the middle, then there are manic swings both up and down.

I liked bipolar barbie dolls for years because they were able to wield an upbeat intensity that punched through my apathy and got my attention. After dealing with a half dozen crazy bitches I couldn't get rid of, I got over that sort of attraction real fast.

juli0_bustamante

1. im not on drugs, weeds is not a drug.
2. I havent done it in months
3. I love moms but this is killing me
4. Sucks to see my dad the way he is, He's tuff but he too has his limits
5. I too need to see a shrink.
6. What the ---- did i do to deserve this?

On another note, moms had an operation a while back. She had a tumor i believe in the pituatary gland or someshit. basically it made all her fingers and feet and various other body parts get all big and ----. her fingers and toes were super fat and they operated and succesfully removed the tumor. COuld it be that this too has effected her?

HondaTuner

Hmm.

Drug - Any substance, other than food, that is used to prevent, diagnose, treat or relieve symptoms of a disease or abnormal condition. Also refers to a substance that alters mood or body function, or that can be habit-forming or addictive, especially a narcotic.

Weed - cannabis: the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect

Even caffeine is a drug, fyi.

juli0_bustamante

blah, explain to me why it grows from the earth if its soo bad then why dont i OD from it? I know if i take a ---- ton of aspirins that will be my last headache.