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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I always knew my mom was bipolar. It didn't dawn on me just how bad it had been until I was away from her in college.[b] It impacted me throughout my life. We walked on pins and needles around her. I have a hard trusting that people around me aren't privately seething at me, and going to have some huge outburst over a minor infraction.[/b] DH sometimes gets peeved because I slip into a pattern of constantly asking if he is mad at me. I feel like living with my mom made me an incredibly anxious person. I have spent years in therapy undoing the damage.[/quote]

Yup, this is my life as well!  Although my mother was like this with the bonus of intense paranoia and delusional thinking as well.  I am almost 30 and I did not realize that this was a very real illness and not "mom being mom" until just a couple of years ago.  Oh the agony I would have been spared if I just realized this sooner, or if some other adult had said "it's not you, your mom is sick"![/quote]

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