2yrs ago my mother was diagnosed bipolar. She had been living with it for many years, which we were all unaware of. She had terrible episodes of paranoia and was VERY manic at one point, which is what caused her to get treatment. Those symptoms are gone, thank goodness. What she is dealing with now, is hard and I don't know what to do anymore.

My mom worries, a lot. Excessively, I think. She is on 5 different meds and since taking them she has lost her "spunk" so to day. I often see her staring into space blankly, sometimes falling asleep sitting up. She isn't as outgoing with her grandchildren. She constantly worries. Worries about if she wrote a check properly that she mailed already. She will frantically call me and tell me that she thinks she forgot to sign it or wrote the wrong amount in. She'll call the company the bill was being sent to. (She's done this at least 3 times in the past 2 months) Another example, she used to LOVE to spend time with her grandchildren. She used to come over and watch them if I needed to run out on an errand. Now, she is "afraid" to watch them. "What if something happens to me and I can't call 911" I'm scared of that...... She's pretty much afraid of EVERYTHING. She ALWAYS thinks the worst. She worries about money A LOT as well. Last night she called me at 11pm worried about something. It's getting worse and worse. She worries so much about taking her medicine on time that she watches the clock like a hawk.

We invited her to come on our family vacation with us this year but she declined because she is afraid that she will forget to take her medicine and she'll panic. She's also worried to leave her 2 cats. It's really sad because she doesn't enjoy life and the wonderful things that she COULD do, all because of her excessive worry about things.

She only sees her therapist every 6months now because I'm certain that she doesnt' tell her about this worry. I think I need to call her therapist and make my own appt. with her just to tell her how my mom is acting. When I mention to my mom about her needing to go more often and tell her therapist about this worry she gets all worried and says I'll stop, I promise, I'll try harder not to worry.

I don't know what to do anymore. She calls me 8 times a day over the most smallest of things that she is worried about. I don't know what to do anymore and I'm ashamed to say that I sometimes get angry at her and upset, it's so frustrating. I just want my mom back.

Thanks for listening. I hope someone can give me some ideas in how to help her.