How’s your relative doing now? Did he/she ever get any better, achieve any kind of balance?
My relative passed away of natural causes about a year and a half ago. It was classic bipolar and there would be long periods of normal behavior where you saw what a wonderful person they were. Medication helped keep the “episodesâ€, for lack of a better term, fewer and farther apart but it never stopped anything and we would know by a change in behavior and a refusal to take anymore Meds. that it was starting again. After about age 70, though, things seemed to get better. Strange, isn’t it? One major episode in the next 13 years on extremely low dose of medication because of age.