How do you avoid a breakdown with Bipolar Disorder?
My mom is Bipolar and we recently lost my father about 1 1/2 years ago. It normally takes a really expensive trip to a mental facility before she gets back on track. I have 2 sisters, all of us are married and this puts major strain on our relationships. Last time my mom ended up marrying a man from the mental facility for about a week and it took us 6 months to file the divorce (my mom is also legally blind and can’t work so she only lives off SS.). We want to be there and help her but she pushes us away until it’s too late and we have to force her get help. Isn’t there someway to help her before the symptoms get too bad?????? Please help if you can.
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The right medications is all that can help.
Hire her a nurse’s aid to ensure that she takes her medications.
the only thing you can do is let her know u r there 4 her and that u will help her in anyway but the more you push yourself on them the more they pull away because they feel that your trying to control them.
you can’t make someone get help until they are ready and unfortunately there is no sure way to keep your mother from having a breakdown she has to be the one to seek help.
A good foundation when she leaves treatment is helpful. Therapist, medication and psychiatrist are very very important.
Make sure shes taking her meds and seeing her therapists and her Doc for refills and be supportive.
Mental illness is very hard on family’s. God bless you for caring so many give up they get tired and that is easy to understand.
Good luck to you and your family
Stress can lead to a constant underlying tension in a person, & can lead to breakdown totally by adding extreme stress on top of that.
Stress is caused by resistance to what is. Desire what is and no stress is possible.
im bipolar, & READ GOOD, you cant force a bipolar out,
it will WORSEN it, I know, people trys that with me, Be kind & gentle,
My Bipolar i live with it, & i get out when im able, I stay in longer if people bitches, I REBELL !!! most bipolar ones do.
Best thing? be there for her, Dont bitch,
Offer Support, Not Begging to get out,
from a nother bipolar person
I have bipolar along with other mental illness and there isn’t really anthing you can do except be there when she fall. You can’t make her get help. She does need to be seeing a therapist and a physchiatrist. I don’t know if your mom is on any meds or not. If she is maybe she is not taking them, maybe you could remind her to take them if she is. But don’t treat her like a child give her some dignity. She is an adult and needs to be treated as such. When you can do this she might even talk to you about her illness. Maybe if you got a book on bipolar and read it you could get some insight. If you do just go to amazon choose books and type in bipolar disorder and alot of books will come up. Remember your mother has to want help before she can be helped.
take your meds as directed, eat a balanced diet — along with seeing a counselor
good luck