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My mother and her sister share the same mother but not the same father . My aunt’s son , who is only a few months younger than I am , has bipolar disorder . I’ve read that it’s hereditary , and I’m also experiencing some of the symptoms of the disease . Is it possible that there was a gene passed from their mother ? She didn’t have bipolar disorder , and I’m not sure if there is actually a history of the disease in the family . Is it a recessive gene that can just pop up like red hair ?
My daughter has bipolar but has been a single mom to three shildren since they were born. Ages 3 1/2, 4 1/2 and newborn. The father has been in and out of their lives since they beginning. They got married last year and split up again after 3 months. He always tries to upset her and make her angry then calls the police and says she is a danger to her children (bipolar). She is breast feeding and can’t take meds and is not a danger. She has provided a home, clothes, takes to doctors appts, school, etc. He doesn’t even keep a job. He took the kids and filed for a divorce then they reconciled for a few months which made his custody papers null. He used them anyway and took the kids. Now we are going to court. I don’t know what he has up his sleeve now but his mom has everything to do with it because he is unable to do anything on his own. He has a 14 year old that his mom raises and another somewhere else. He doesn’t even pay support. Do you think we will win in court?
I just wanted to add to my previous. When the ex tried to take the children after they reconciled he told the police we were hiding the children. One police officer told us we did not have to answer the door because it was a civil matter. Then he came again and the police let him take one of them after he grabbed the other one from school with old but most recent paperwork from court. It was the old order before they reconciled. It is a mess but I feel the police were in the wrong and there are too many things unsaid. It’s sad the children have to go through with this behavior. Hopefully the judge will see the whole picture.
42, male, gay, bi-polar/major depression. Not by choice but for family. Happy and creative, able to sleep, eat and experience joy with combined meth/psych meds. Alcohol limited to 2 glasses of wine daily. I would die willingly at my own hand or someone elses if I were truly selfish and had no religious beliefs. Also unwillingly relocated to rural community due to no money, a loving family and an abusive ex partner, with no contact with anyone but a loving but baffled 45 yr old sister and 19 year old nephew I love far more than life itself on a good day. Professional help 4 days away. No meth since day before Thanksgiving, no wine since Oprah at 4. (one glass). Diagnosed bipolar in late ’98. The pain physically and emotionally is absolutely more than I can continue to bear. Please help us all understand what to expect from my rapidly and ever changing moods.
I know when you’re manic, you don’t sleep much. But if you’re not manic, and then for one reason or another you don’t get much sleep, can that make you go manic?
I’m bipolar. What I’m asking is, if I don’t get sleep, could that send me into a manic episode?
