is this bi-polar? - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

LUV11 · 09-19-2002, 11:23 AM

hi, i know some1 with these symptoms. so could you please tell me if they might be bi-polar/manic depression?

---gets angry very easily.
---thinks that he is right and every1 else is wrong
---if you try to tell him basically anything whatsoever, he takes it as a threat or a form of control. (yet he likes to control every1 alot)
---he thinks he knows everything and thats why no1 else is right.
---stays in room alot
---sleep patterns change.
---uses the reason "it's truth" for backing his arguments up.
---in a serious or glum state almost all the time
---now he doesn't talk to us anymore unless (i guess) he feels like it. he just ignores us when we talk to him or even when we ask him what he wants to eat. he act like we don't matter and so he seemingly ignores us.
---can't handle work.
---talks/wispers to him self
---when some1 speaks and he doesn't like it he'll say shut up.
---he name-calls, even if we don't do anything but ask him something.
---he once thought our cats were "bad" and so he couldn't be near them without getting angry
---he writes these things (i have never read) but the ppl that have read it, says he's way off his rocker and it's mostly non-sense that he thinks is "truth".
---doesn't eat certain foods, and doesn't eat that much.
---says he can see "things"
---kinda off in a daze sometimes

does this sound like it. i don't really know that much about bi-polar disorder or manic depression, thats why i'm asking.

LUV11 · 09-20-2002, 02:47 PM

thanx. but he's not my husband...he's my older brother.
my parents were gonna take him for help, but they canceled the appointment and decided not too.
but he needs some sort of medicine.

amos · 09-21-2002, 10:33 AM

Many of the behaviors sound so similar to what my 18 year old son exhibited for about a year. He was just diagnosed about seven months ago with bipolar ll. He was mad at the world and still is in a different way. Everything was everyone else's fault.

You can't be sure until he get's somewhere for a diagnosis. I hope your parents can get him in to be checked out. It is hard to sit and watch the changes your kids go through. The helpless feeling can tear you apart.

Do what you can to convince your parents to seek mental health.

Good Luck from a mom that's been there!

HKE · 09-25-2002, 10:05 AM

I don't quite understand why his parents had made a doctor's appointment for him and then cancelled. It's so important that he seeks good medical help. He reminds me allot of my brother that was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. The whispering to himself, the hallucinations about the cat, staying in his room all the time, seeing things, illogical reasoning. He could be having psychotic episodes and they could get worse without proper medication.
Please don't just let him go through this without adequate medical help. He could be going through allot of pain inside.

lovelyme · 09-25-2002, 01:16 PM

I am thinking pschytzophrenia (sp). I know they can all tie in though so I am new to this with my children's father too. The first half of the symptoms you described are the same as my kid's dad. And I believe he drinks too much on top of those symptoms. Does he think he is "normal"?