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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Person with bipolar disorder here.

No one who hasn't taken these meds will understand how awful they are. I do not go off of my meds, but I very much understand the choice of anyone who chooses to do so.

At any rate, your sister's decision not to have anything to do with you likely has nothing to do with bipolar disorder. People don't just stop taking calls from their sister because they have bipolar disorder. You did something. Own up to it. [/quote]

Actually, as someone who also has a sister with bipolar and likely borderline personality disorder,[b] i can attest that people with bipolar disorder do indeed stop talking to their sister for little or no reason[/b].  My sister has done it at least once a year for years on end.  She has very little perspective and sometimes the "issues" she is upset about are wholecloth fiction.  You may not do this, and if you don't randomly cut off family members you're usually close to, great.  But other people with bipolar disorder can and do.  Because of their disease, and with little warning.

It's cruel and they are clearly showing they really don't care that much about their sibling.  But we're supposed to suck it up because they are bipolar.  [/quote]

Lol. They don't stop speaking for "no reason" -- and your definition of "little" is undoubtedly something your sister would debate.

People cut off siblings for good reason all the time where the cut-off sibling, due to lack of insight, thinks it was for "no reason." When this scenario takes place with a sibling who has a mental illness, it gives the sibling who is actually at fault all the ammunition in the world to wail away about it like OP. "My sibling cut me off because they have bipolar disorder!!!" Nope, they cut you off because you are a jack@$$.

OP's nieces and nephews have phones and they aren't taking her calls either. She did something. And it probably wasn't "little." [/quote]

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