This is a classic example of the ignorance surrounding bipolar illness by uneducated or ignorant or spiteful people.

The truth is there is no stigma among strong, well-educated people. As an example,
I would point out the life of Dr. Kay Jamison Redfield who is bipolar and a psychiatrist
who teaches psychiatry at a major university and writes books about the illness, i.e.,
"An Unquiet Mind" and "Touched With Fire".

My guess is that the judge will throw out the request by the former wife and suggest that she get help in understanding bipolar illness; unless, as another has pointed out, the laws in your state are radically different from the ones in other states. She is unwittingly subjecting her children to undue hardship and the loss of affection from loving people. A good judge will probably point that out to her.

Do you know that most people used to have about the equivalent of an 8th grade education? (It may have come up a good bit in recent years.) That hardly qualifies for restraining orders in your case, in my view.

Try not to worry and tell the judge honestly what your life is like. I think you sound like a winner to me in every respect.

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