???? - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

daystar91 · 05-28-2004, 09:16 PM

Hi,
Wondering what happens to those who never seek for help with
bi polar????

mudhound · 05-29-2004, 05:27 AM

I would not even want to think of the possibilities. BP is an illness that can do so many things to a person. However, depending on the severity of it I imagine that one could go on about life.
I recall my grandmother who was 85 when she died. She has been dead for about 10 years now. She (grandmother) would tell stories about people in our family who was in her words “a little off”. I recall her saying that so in so would stay in a room for months at a time. Or, so in so would end up in jail for doing something stupid like extreme behavior, not dressing (oh yes they call him the streak

), and assorted other items. She would say that so in so had NERVE problems and such.
I guess that back then they were not educated in mental illness. The treatment of choice was to put them in a back bedroom and just about forget that they exist. Oh, how painful!

simplychris1968 · 05-29-2004, 08:13 AM

Well, if the person doesn't seek help, they could possible harm themselves or others. Medication & therapy is really the right choice. It will make the person feel better & then they will be able to gain control of their lives.

mudhound · 06-02-2004, 07:12 PM

daystar,

What about your 2 cents? Speak your mind.
This was a good question.

daystar91 · 06-02-2004, 07:37 PM

Hi,
I'm bipolar and my mother is in denial.....What in see her scares me, that's what don't want to become someday....But she doesn't take care of her self mentally........
She lives in a world that no one else does....She lies so much that she can't keep up with her lies.....She can't live without a man even though he treats her rotten, he cheats on her and so on......She sleeps more than anyone else i know, over eight hours a day.....She's a clean freak maybe that's OCD......She works until she is burnt out, when she can, then she sleeps.......Alway lies, compulsive lies, why i don't know???Her moods can go from, she likes you and then she could hate you just like that....Sometimes my sisters and i are family members but then the next day we could be disowned.....She ignores what is going on around her and makes up things that are not true..... She is always feeling sorry for herslelf....Makes up that she is sick to get attention....But it's not small stuff, it's like she just told me not to long ago that her lung claps but she still can clean house top to bottom......Then each day she would call me to tell me that it's coming back up so many percentage on it's own every day....Now my mother in law is a nurse she says if she had a claps lung she would be in the hospital and that it just doesn't refill it self....I thought that maybe she had split personality....Still it makes me wonder???This is the reason i ask this question....