I hate to be a harbinger of doom, but she may not grow out of this. my mentally ill daughter (biplolar) is 45 years old and still blames me for everything wrong in her life. My advice is to protect yourself. My daughter has physically attacked before. I’m terrified of her and will not be in her presence unless I have someone to protect me.

A friend of mine has an adult schizophrenic son from a previous marriage who threatened her husband. They chalked it up to idle threats because of mental illness. He did in fact kill her husband.

She may just be trying to bully you, but I wouldn’t just ignore it either. If she was not mentally ill and threatened to shoot you would you ignore that?