My mom is living with my grandmother, but really close by. I am staying with my dad. He is cool. I have nowhere else to go. Even when I was living by myself though my relationship with my mom has been a complicated one. It seems people in my life are very inconsistent. They have times where they can be very supportive, but there are other times where they are really critical. It fluctuates a lot. It is just how I was brought up living with her.

In the past, she was emotionally abusive during times where I suspect she had mood episodes, but she refuses to address it. She can be that very loving mother who is there for me, but then there are times she's really caused me to have set backs. She is also being super horrible to my brother right now. She wants him to "snap out of it" and will curse and carry on whenever I mention that he isn't doing well. She literally exploded last time I brought him up, and he never hurt my mom. He is very depressed and has suicidal thoughts, and I am worried about him. That is stressful for me too, because I worry about him and don't like how he's treated. He needs help. When I was 15, I had my first BP episode and she couldn't handle me.