hmmmm well bipolar runs on both sides of my family with the seemingly worse cases on my fathers side but my mom.....complicated. i dont think it was bipolar but she was emotionally and verbally abusive very critical....one minute screaming about how i was the scum of the earth and the next coming down to hug me and tell me she loved me. she had and has severe self esteem issues and i think she used me a lot to transfer her negative feeling about herself. I started realizing this as i was older and something would happen in her day and i would be the one to pay for it by being bashed verbally
she also has just come to terms with my bp.
i think i may have handled my bp better earlier in life if it werent for her