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[quote=Anonymous]My mother was bipolar. V bad 18 to about 35, many hospitalizations. Long stable period from 35 to 55, after family court told her to live with her parents to keep custody of me.

Had a terrible, terrible psychotic breakdown at 55, kicked off by her parents running out of money to keep her in her own apartment. I’m not sure when she went through menopause. Was mostly in hospitals and group homes after that, awful psychotic manias and depressions so bad they were testing her for, like, creutzfdeld-Jacob at one point. She was tiny and probably anorexic, and medication side effects were awful; restlessness, involuntary motions, anxiety. She died in her sleep, in-patient at a psych hospital, at 61. Probably had broken a collarbone (also terrible osteoporosis) and had been in pain, but no known physical problems at the time otherwise. Awful shock for the staff, who had been so kind to her.

It was a terrible few years for her. I was mostly a few hundred miles away but came home for crises. Her younger brother is also troubled and was living with her parents, and wouldn’t let her stay there as well—hence the group homes. 
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