My brother and I both inherited bipolar disorder from our dad and we're trying to break the family cycle of just pretending everything is fine until someone has a major episode. We want to talk openly about medication, warning signs, and how to help each other, but we keep falling back into old family patterns of either complete silence or dramatic crisis mode with nothing in between.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two family members are attempting to create new patterns of communication around shared mental health challenges while navigating inherited family dynamics.
“Where Are You with Bipolar and mood instability?”
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