Yes i'm happy to know your mom is of great help. I have bipolar and schitzoaffective and no one understood me but through years of therapy and docs and t's i've found myself more able to communicate with my parents and and even ashamed as to how i treated people who didn't understand my illness. Hopefully you can tell your dad and get a fatherly support system, i'm sure he cares just may be overly worried. I know being a daughter to our dads is harder than a motherly relationship.