How do you tell someone that they're bipolar?!
Question: My mother has been bipolar for at least 15 years. And each year she gets worse. She wont admit it and when someone tells her she gets really angry.One minute shes happy then the next she'll be yelling over something stupid.I know it's sad but she thinks everyone is out to get her. What can me or my family do to get her some help without her being mad at us?
Answers: My mother has been bipolar for at least 15 years. And each year she gets worse. She wont admit it and when someone tells her she gets really angry.One minute shes happy then the next she'll be yelling over something stupid.I know it's sad but she thinks everyone is out to get her. What can me or my family do to get her some help without her being mad at us?
My mom is exactly the same way. She'll be ecstatically happy about everything for about a month and then she'll go crazy and turn into a psychotic control freak claiming everyone hates her.
The next time your mother's in a calm, approachable mood tell her she seems upset alot and your worried about her happiness (not her mental health, that will just backfire). Ask her if she would consider psychological evaluation and/or counseling.
Whatever you do don't tell her you think she's mentally unstable, she'll just get defensive and deny it. Best of luck!
secretly record her on the camera. if she won't listen to you guys, then show her her behavior. that should get her to admit it.
YOU don't tell anyone they are bipolar, that's what psychiatrists are for, they're the ones who can diagnose.
Are you a physician? If not, then you have no medical background for diagnosing illnesses. I'd probably be upset if someone was consistantly telling me I was crazy too! Suggest she have an annual physical with a doctor, if she's as bad as you say, even a general visit like a physical might tip the doctor off to what's going on.
Don't tell her, get a doctors check up for her (casual if possible) and speak to the doctor. If she is diagnosed with it maybe she will accept it. Ask the doctor for advice. I'm sorry though, i'll pray for you.
Only a licensed physician or psychologist can tell someone they are bipolar ... it's a diagnosis, not an assumption.
I wouldn't jump to bipolar based on what you describe. Going up and down like that just isn't typical of the illness. I can think of a few other things, not all of which are mental illnesses. I certainly wouldn't want someone without expertise labeling me as others have said.
Talk to her doc and perhaps the next appt she has s/he can give her a referral if s/he has reason to believe she has a serious problem. However it goes, you cannot make a person do what they do not want to do. If your mom doesn't believe she has a problem, she's not going to believe she has a problem.