Bipolar is a serious not laughable disease. My brother in laws grandmother was bipolar and killed herself. My BIL’s mother has just the past couple months attempted suicide twice making her total attempts about 7 or so. It is so hard for my sister and her family.
On that note children being bipolar is possible and does happen, but I do believe the parents of these children are responsible in allowing bad behavior. They do not discipline them and encourage bad bevior by catering to the child.
Dear friends of mine have a daughter who is 30. She is bipolar and another mental illness. They have bought this daughter everything she wanted. They are wealthy and adopted her. Her biological mother was a nut. No doubt her illness is real. It is just made worse by instead if teaching their daughter to clean up her emotinal messes, they’d take her to buy her Prada, Jimmy Choo’s, car, and constant flow of money. They were so afraid of what their daughter would do if they stood up to her they did opposite of what she needed. She’s now been in and out of mental hospitals, had a baby that is now been adopted out to a loving family. Sad.
I wouldn’t say that being bipolar isn’t real or isn’t serious. I would say that spurious diagnosis and medication of infants is wrong.
These folks catering to the child has no bearing on the course of the illness. You can’t make bipolar better or worse by trying to teach her boundaries. It’s not good what they’ve done, but it is not impacting her bipolar disorder.
What she really needs is to have someone there to ensure that she takes her meds daily.
My mom is an unholy terror off her meds, quite a reasonable person when on.