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[quote=Anonymous]My parents where divorced and we lived with my bipolar mother. She was hospitalized several times. It did not dawn on me that normal moms didn't come home from work and sleep until 2 or 3am and sleep all weekend. My husband jokes that I was raised by wolves because we fended for ourselves starting at age 8ish. After my grandmother died when I was 12 my mother started to hoard. I have terrible door bell dread to this day (panic if people drop by because the house isn't perfect) I knew the sleeping and messy house wasn't normal starting in middle school but I didn't realize it was mental illness until college. The extent of the problem didn't hit me until she started loosing jobs and getting evicted for hoarding. In my late 20s she was hospitalized and asked me to do a family therapy session which was the final reality check. I recently got her disability for depression so she doesn't have to work which is a giant releif.

My sister and I have very different responses to her illness. My sister checked out at an early age (who can blame her?) and pretty much ignores my moms problems. I'm the worrier/care giver. The responses are pretty tipical for our personalities and birth order.

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