u/miuucatt

Hi guys this is my first post and idk if anyone is going to see this but my mom has bipolar 2 disorder. She is an amazing mom and I know that she is trying her best. She has had trouble all her life since she only got diagnosed in her later life and she is always trying different medications, even though she tries to take medicine and get better for me and my brother it always just feels like a losing battle. There are weeks where we are really good and she’s being really nice to us but there are other times where she is explosive and borderline abusive, she has said very nasty things to me and my brother that I don’t even want to remember. Im an adult now and I’ve gotten better at distinguishing when she is not medicated because that is when it gets bad, Im just having trouble knowing how to help her cope or not to set her off, it’s gotten harder and harder as I have aged and it’s almost like her behavior when she’s unmediated has become more personal If that makes sense. When she gets out of these “moods” where she’s abusive she always apologizes tearfully and I know she doesn’t mean most of what she’s saying. We have had multiple conversations about this but it seems to all go void as soon as her behavior starts again. I am really at my breaking point and I know she is too, if anyone has advice or has a parent with bipolar then please let me know how I can make things better for our family.