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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post really hits home for me. My mom is bipolar and I have an 8 and 9 year age difference between my brother and sister with me being the youngest, so once I turned around 10 and they left for college it was just me and I feel my childhood was completely miserable. So around 10 is when I realized something was very wrong with my mother. My mom was also extremely unpredictable as other posters experienced as well. She would totally freak out on me for the smallest things and for that I was always afraid of her. I never knew what would set her off. It felt very isolating when I would see my friends' normal mothers and wish I had their life. I learned to just keep my mouth shut when she yelled because if I responded in any way it always became much worse. As an adult now my mom does have some understanding of the damage he caused. She remembers some things she said and did and says it makes her feel very ashamed and sad.

We are definitely not close. I now have a child and another on the way and I could never imagine almond to them or treating them the way my mother did. I found that when I had my child I actually became more angry at my mother because I just can't understand how a parent can treat their child like that. I'm hoping at the very least it makes me a better parent myself.[/quote]

It's remarkable how many of us had scary, rageful bipolar mothers.  I only wish I knew other kids like me existed.[/quote]

I know, right? If there had been a member of the Babysitters Club who had a horrible mother like mine, that would have made a world of difference to me, LOL.[/quote]

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