So I'm 25 with a four year old that adore, she's my everything. I've graduated from college and I work as a pharmacy technician but I always haven't made the best of choices in my life because I usually found myself in a hypomanic state before I was diagnosed at the age of 24. I did numerous drugs and partying but took care of business and work and school and my child at the same time but never knew how it would affect my life now in the present. My mother lives with me at my condo now and she suffers from major depression, she recently began putting her hands on me and in one incident fractured two of my ribs... which caused me to ultimately lose faith in my meds and turn back to self medicating. She constantly tells me she doesn't care if she kills me, she'll just tell my daughter I wasn't sh!@ and i try to explain to her that being bipolar is so confusing in itself. And had I know earlier in life I would of changed a lot of things but I'm trying to get help now and she just doesn't understand. And what hurts is that shes living in my condo, hurting me, mentally, verbally,and now physically. I just don't know what to do because she's my mom. Is there any one that can offer some advice?