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Mother or MonsterThis forum post has messages dated from 12/31/08 through 06/13/10, please be sure to read all the messages. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. - Bipolar Disorder
| Mother or MonsterIn my relationship I noticed a routine with my mother-in-law. The routine started with constant verbal attacts on me when my spouse was not around, she would make comments on my ethnicity and so on. The day I met her she made a derogatory comment to me about my spouse. She has these aweful mood swings and tends to have some very distorted "views" such as God is out to get her, things that have no reality, she thinks I'm out to get her and has made every attempt to get my spouse to see her point of view. I have tried to talk to her, but she rants and cries it goes from extreme to the next. My spouse has heard her call me every name in the book and has finally gotten fed up with all her unfounded accusations. This woman has hated me the day she laid eyes on me. So now she feels like my spouse has abandoned her, she has since made up a wild story to get my spouse's whole family angry with my spouse and my worries are, since she is so unstable - is this woman going to try to hurt me in any way? Other family members make excuses for her and sweep her problem under the rug. We have spoken with a counselor and told him our situation (we also found out my spouse was abused by mother when my spouse was a child) The counselor said that since she refuses to get help (she was diagnosed bipolar, but she says there is nothing wrong with her, and that the world is wrong, doctors are liars and so on)her disorder will get worse. How much worse? She does drink also. I'm not the only person she has done this to, she seems to have problems with a lot of people, and makes up these horrible stories about them. Is this also part of the disorder? |
| Yes, she is paranoid and has anger manic fits. She needs help but only she can do that in the end. You have a life.. live it. She will continue her ways until she decides it's not worth it. |
| That is such a very drastic answer my friend, but you are also very true, indeed so. She needs to deal with her issue on her very own, and if she cannot realize this, that in itself can prove to be such a very menacing issue to have to be resolved. |
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