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Originally Posted by UpInTheTrees
Hi,
I am 26, with Bi-polar. It is hard to for me to deal with my parents. I swear at them to sometimes and regret it. Here is some support, it's not you, prehaps her thoughts are jumbled and she's frustrated with her situation so lashing out at small things. She's just come out of the hospital, it's so hard to make 2 cents out of it, plus in her mind she says,"you want to be fine", like instantly, but thats not possible. Speaking from experience becomes hard to evalute and judge your progress as you recover and your beating yourself up and wondering why is this happening? So your irritable and swear at the people who know you the best and seen all you're worsts-ie parents. I wish I knew what I could do sometimes to stop it...or to communicate better with them. I think with BP sometimes people that haven't gone through it don't understand you and the frustration and it comes out it ulgy forms.
Writing about it here helps.
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Hi - I am fairly new here too. I am the mom of an adult daughter (age 22) who I believe has BP or some other type of related disorder. She is in denial and/or not wanting to share with me so I'm not really sure. She also just got out of hospital and perhaps if you hear from a parent's perspective may help you a bit?
She is very angry with me at tmes and yesterday swore a blue streak at me. I still love her, will always love her -- and I believe this lashing out is in part due to her own frustration with her illness. I don't blame her for it but I am learning to let her know that the swearing at me is not acceptable. I am still learning on how to cope with this. As a parent, my advice to you is to try and share as much as you can with your parents because likely they have your best interests at heart -- the more they know about your condition/illnessa and how you feel.. and what your struggles are -- the better they can deal with it. I don't know how easy or hard that is to do -- I am finding out that this journey is hard for both the adult child and the parent who is trying to support. I don't have all the answers but I hope you find some comfort in knowing that your parents probably understand you are struggling and love you all the same!
I hope you continue to work with your doctor to find the right kind of treatment so you can live a life that is as happy as possible
