Help with bipolar sister?
Hello! I’m stuck. I love my sister so much, she’s my blood; but I just need some help from other people with bipolar.
I don’t know much about it, but she says she’s bipolar-paranoid, she’s been diagnosed for a few years; and I don’t know how to comfort her when she starts believing our family is against her.
She thinks we’re out to get her— she’s said herself, she thinks people are after her and that the whole world is out to get her. She gets very angry with us, but then later will be just fine.
I hate to say it as well, but she dose have bipolar disorder, but she also.. isn’t a good person? Not because of her disorder, but because of other ways then she acts.
Anytime I try to bring it up with her she immediately says it because of her bipolar, and gets very upset with us when we try to help.
If she dosent like what we made for dinner one night, and we make something she’ll eat; she won’t eat it. So when we’re eating she starts saying to us that we don’t love her enough and that we’d make other people food that they wanted but not her.
Theres a lot of other things, I can explain more but this is getting very long.
Is this apart of being bipolar? I get upset when she blames us and starts yelling but I stay quiet. I want to help her but I don’t know where to start. Is there anyone that experiences anything similar?
Thank you.
(Sister is early twenties)