connection help: Are there different forms of Bi-polar? - Help.com

Yes there are different forms, you can start at one and end with another.
Rapid cycling is a common one.

Symptoms are vast,
short attention span
being clumsy
addictions
not being abe to stick to one thing
lots of things in your mind at the same time

There are so many to list
I think you may be best of looking it up to be honest.
I am bipolar and I know how you must feel, but information is your best bet.

Hmmm I don’t know the situation that got her where she is now or the reaon, but no being bipolar does not mean you get treated like that.
As i said i am bipolar and I am fine, little ups and downs but I have kids and a husband so liveing a normal life should not be in quetion, are you sure that is al that is going on and what makes you say bipolar?

Rapid cycling as what the most common form is.
You can go from happy to suicidal in one day and sometimes faster than than, it can be a very unpradictable thing.
Mine is very commony linked to the seasons, when the season is due to change or is changeing my moods are all over the place and I mean horrificly so, hence why I am the way I am at the moment, spring in the air :S
But that is another common link to being bipolar, or so I am tod by the many doctors I have seen.

Maybe you need to ask to have it al written down on paper for you so you can understand why she is being treated like this as I doubt for one second it is just being bipolar, there muct be somthing else.

I think that is a symptom too, beliveing in something that is untrue, I have that allot, if i think something and belive it is real then to me it is real… part of the mind playing tricks.

Bi-polar. About 98% of cases of bi-polar depression are caused by a traumatic event.

Most people will think of this and think…ok i got this in may…so what happened in may.. (for example)

but the traumatic experience could of happened ten years ago…if you get what i mean.

But is usually the cause.

This is why people who are bi-polar, see psychologists not councillers, or psychiatrists…just psychologists.

Specifically…to get that level of proffessionalism….the work that they study and are trained in…is very SPECIFIC to the kind of therapy needed to treat someone with bipolar.

I cannot recommend enough..that you get your sister some help, via a psychologist.

But it also sounds to me that she could be schizophrenic. Which is a type of psychotic disorder. Which affects the brain chemically. It is a brain ‘malfunction’ and usually has to be treated medically rather then cognitively through therapy. Schizophrenia is commonly MISUNDERSTOOD as having split personality-this is multiple personality disorder. Completely different to schizophrenia.

I’m not saying this to scare you. But i study and have studied so much psychology…its just something you may want to explore. I hope what i said has helped you in some way.

If you are feeling a little lost and don’t know what to do. help her get diagnosed/rediagnosed. And then do your own research on whatever they come up with. Symptoms, how it affects the person. And what you can do as an outsider to help the person and help yourself. If you like, search schizophrenia on the web. From an official health site i recommend.

My only question i have in all of this is as follows…

how are you? Its hard for you to watch her go through this…feeling helpless. Are you doing ok yourself?

I think it could be related to the illness yes but i’m not completely sure.

I think the answer is to take her back to the doctors, go with her for support and so the doctor doesnt try to fob her off!

If your not happy, get another opinion. There and then. And keep doing it on that day until someone checks out every possibility. Its there job.

They shouldn’t make you feel like you cant turn to them..even though i know that its like that. Just try to get them to give an answer!