As some of you know I have an identical twin sister. For most of our lives we have been vastly different until a few years back I went to visit her (she lives in Arizona) and all of her friends loved me. Since that time she has slowly and steadily been (for lack of a better way to put it) stealing my identity. Everything she used to make fun of me for...the way I dress, my tattoos, my taste in movies and music, my hobbies ect are now her favorite things and she's going around telling people she's the one that got me interested in those things. This infuriates me. It's becoming very 'single white female'...my favorite book is now her favorite book, my favorite movie, band ect....she even took a tattoo design I had told her I was planning on getting and got it herself...

I've tried mentioning that this bothers me to my mother but she doesn't see it as my sister copying everything I do and tells me 'not to be so sensitive'. Unfortunately with my current mania my anger towards this situation is becoming explosive and I'm afraid I'm going to totally snap on my sister soon. It is really causing me a severe amount of stress and I don't know how to deal with it. I know my reaction is amplified because of my current state of mania but she just makes me want to punch my fist through a wall all the time. I really don't know what to do about it. Talking to my mother has proved fruitless and if I question my sister about it she's got to run to my mother and tell her I'm being a b****.

Even before this manic episode started this was bothering me to a great extent and now I just can't stand it anymore. I don't know what to do.