About 6 months ago my grandmother was diagnosed with bipolar disease. It’s really weird to hear about diseases and then see one of your family members go through it. It started about a year and a half ago. She started acting really strange. She started doing things that she usually wouldn’t do. She started being really ADD. It was like she couldn’t just sit down and relax for ten minutes without getting up and cleaning, or doing something. She also never slept. She would only sleep for a couple of hours and get up at like 3 and start cleaning or cooking. I remember my dad calling me one and telling me about how she was acting. My grandmother was staying with him for a weekend and one night at about 3 am he was woken up by a sound in the kitchen. He went into the kitchen and found her in there. She had taken all the glasses, pots and pans out of the cabinets and was cleaning them. This is a very serious disease. She wasn’t a severe case but the whole family could tell that she wasn’t herself. Before this I thought that bipolar was just a emotional disease. Where people were happy one minute and then said the next, but it isn’t. It also deals with being really ADD and then crashing. My grandmother would also take naps during the day which was also unusual for her. She would also fall asleep at church, which to her is very disrespectful and something she would normally never do. Thanks to doctors and medicine she is fine now. We just have to make sure she stays on her medicine.
I did not know that bipolar disease also made people act in the way you described your grandmother. I always thought it was more of being happy and then sad or vice versa. I am glad to hear the medication is helping her. I think I came across someone that may have been bipolar because sometimes she was really positive and proud of herself and other times she was so negative about everything. It was impossible to cheer her up. I really do not know what happened to her though..
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It is true that having someone sick in house can affect all the family. But also, I am glad that your grandmother is fine now, due to her is following her medication. However, it’s really weird to hear about the effects that this bipolar disease has. I had never heard something like this case, but also it was wonderful how you and all you family support her, because it is really important to have somebody in your family who gives all the support to you.
To be quite honest, i never would have thought that someone with bi-polar acted in this manner. I actually thought that it was more drarstic than the things that you mentioned about your grandmother. But as you mentioned she has a mild form. I am glad to know that she was diagnosed properly. Wish you and your family all the best of luck. Oh yeah and CONGRATS on gettting the HS SCHOLARSHIP!!!!!WHOOOHOOO;)
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