My mother is bipolar and goes on spending sprees whenever she gets any money in her hands. When she gets paid, it is the worst as she spends before she pays her bills. It seems like getting paid makes her swing into the manic phase. Is this possible?
I try to work with her, but she’s not open to it. I just wondered about the money triggering the mania, that’s all. Please don’t give me advice on how to handle her as I know how to do this. I am just looking for answers to the money/trigger question. Thank you all so much!

please tell me what I should do. study or get a bachelors or a certificate in which area? Should I get a bachelors or start to work?

I receive ssi benefits and ssdi total $850 a month.
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I am on SSI and SSDI, I worked for 2 months and then all of a sudden I had depression again and couldn’t sleep at night and was sleeping 12-14 hours a day and couldn’t even wake up in the mornings.

Are those symptoms coming due to work?

I have no choice to but stay disabled for the rest of my life?

the social security is paying me disability money even though I’m schizoaffective bipolar type 1, I can work but only for a couple of weeks before I relapse and get irritated, have anxiety and mood swings and even suicidal thoughts.

I can only work so much before I relapse again and I guess that’s why I’m considered disabled?

I was diagnosed as bipolar last year but couldn’t tolerate any of the meds. I’m on an antidepressant now, but am still having some pretty severe mood swings. Are there any bipolar meds that don’t have very severe side effects?

So, I don’t know if I am or not and i’m only 16. I talked to my mom about it and it would explain a lot but I don’t think she’ll take me to a profesional about it until she’s more sure, so i’ve been trying to research it, but I don’t know what sources would be completely reliable so, if anyone has any suggestions on where I could research, it would be greatly appreciated

I have a paper (7-10 pages) that i need to write for a college level general psych class. My problem is that the topic needs to be a question that my partner and i can research and answer ( prove the hypothesis true or false). The only idea I have come up with so far is ” Is Bipolar disorder hereditary?” My major is social work and my partner wants to focus on something in biological psych, so the scoop of topics is pretty wide. If you have any suggestions, I appreciate them. : )

A while back I was diagnosed as bipolar. After a lot of different meds and some counseling I was eased off the meds and now am trying to take control on my own for 5 months now. I’ve been able to see my own warning signs and ask for help. So I live with my bf. I’m not working right now which is making me very depressed. Then about a week ago I found some letters he had wrote to his ex (long before we got together). Not a huge deal but, I brought it up to him and he kind of ignored me. So I’ve wanted to talk about it. The other night I had a terrible dream that we got in a fight. I woke up and was upset but we had a fun day planned so I let it go. When we got home (we had been drinking and a wine festival) I don’t know what set me off. I just flew off the handle and it was bad. I broke some picture frames and ripped up a bunch of out pictures. I went insane. It was NOT good. We talked and finally calmed down, but I feel like a jerk. What should I do??? Get back on meds?
I just want to add, although it sounds like an excuse, but when I get really manic I swear I don’t realize what I have done until its to late. My bf is very understanding, but this is so unfair to him. He is willing to just let it go, but I’m afraid doing that will make things worse.
Getting off the meds was my doctors idea. There are different stages to this and I am definetly not at the easiest to manage stage, but also not at the worst. I had just been working really hard to try to do things more naturally and getting off the meds was a big deal to me. But I will go back and maybe just try less meds.

I am really confused about a feature of bipolar disorder. Spercifically mood swings and alternating behaviour.

1) If someone with Bipolar is in a deep depression, how quickly could the depression turn into mania. Could it be depression then suddenly change within minuets to mania or would it be gradual mood change over days? I thought that the mood could change within hours or days but am very confused now!

2) Could the mood then change back to depression after mania then back and forward within days, or is it more that one will experience depression for a few months, then maybe mania then possible a period or stable normality?

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Someone I work with has two children who have some serious mental health issues and she has to miss a lot of work to take them to appointments and things like that that cannot be scheduled during evenings and weekends and has no one else available to transport them. She’s afraid of getting in trouble for her attendance. Is there any laws or anything that can help her? She has asked one of the children’s dr to write up something for fmla but they said they couldn’t do that since it was for a child and not for her personally.
The appointments – I think anyway – are for counseling and for medication management (approximately 2-4 appts per month). Not to mention when she has to miss work due to their behavior in school.