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[quote=Anonymous]Mental illness runs in my family.

My sister has been in 30 day residential stays in the past.

98% of the time she is normal but the other 2% of the
time she is clearly revved up bipolar in a manic state.

My take on it is that I don't believe she has any comprehension on how bad it is when she is in that state.

I ended up getting professional counseling on how to handle.  Counselor gave me some scripts to say to her
when she needs help.

I now limit contact and I never ride in a car with her.
After one blow up I had a 2 hour car ride and thought
afterwards that I could have been killed.

Now I minimize stressors.  For me it is I don't expect apology. One part of mental illness is that the person
that is mental ill does not think they are mentally ill.

I give a lot of space.  I've only seen 2 incidences first hand
I think my parents saw a third.  After the first the Marines (her employer) put her in a 30 day residential unit.
The second was a meeting with Mom's lawyers after
Dad's death.  Two of the lawyers are over 80 years
old so she was threatening senior citizens.  It was really
bad.  She did not have guns but it was a level of
threats just shy of having guns.  It was really weird,
came out of nowhere and very severe mental illness.

Sometimes after these blowups we don't talk for 2-3 years.
I'm ok with it.

I'll never get an apology from her.  She never thinks she
is sick.  In her case it is part of the mental illness.

Many times we are okay for decades.

God Bless.
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