My mom and I are both bipolar. She's in the middle of an episode, I saw it coming as I know her pattern. She's paranoid believing that others are trying to harm her and my family. Anger is also starting to set in. How do I handle her? I'm making sure she takes her medicine especially sleeping pill because I know lack of sleep will just make it worse.

How do you best handle someone that is in the middle of an episode? I think anyone else would handle it better but my anxiety starts rising when she's like this.