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One of my sister-in-laws is bipolar and has been diagnosed as such. Were it not for her father and my wife, there would be no family members on speaking terms with her. And I'm talking about a huge family. She has alienated every cousin, aunt and uncle she has. Other members of this very large family have fallen on the outs with one another many times over the 25 years I've been married into it, but in the end they all seem to get over it. My sister-in-law has achieved a permanent place as an outsider. She is extremely intelligent, is an LPN working toward her RN, but cannot stay find a place in her own family.
Outside of taking her and putting her in a hospital or other such facility (which my wife's dad and step mother did when she was a teen), she will never get help. One challenge my wife and I face is getting our adult sons who are close in age to her to understand that she truly can't help herself. We need to be tolerant of her and I suspect at some point my sons will be too. But for now for them it is hard.
My brother claims he was diagnosed as bipolar as well, and he may very well may have been. But I think he largely used that as an excuse.
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