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The only thing you can do is to be there for her.
Do you go to her psychiatric appointments with her? It might help to have a fresh perspective for the doctor. It sounds like she needs to be put on a different antipsychotic and a mood stabilizer.
Don't despair. It make take months or years to get her stabalized. In the meantime, just be there for her when she takes a tumble.
I'm sorry for your pain. You might want to find a support group for yourself, a support group for family and friends of a Bipolar.
Good luck to you.
--Bipolar Chica
www.bipolarchica.com
Being there for her goes without saying, but she's driving our family absolutely crazy. My worry is that she has a specific incident from a chiropractor & she really truly believes she's injured from that session, which is a complete delusion. She believes that her central nervous system is permanently damaged. She doesn't even know what she's talking abt bc she has no knowledge of any of this. She'll make up the most ridiculous symptoms & believes that she has it.
i.e) can't feel hunger, can't feel pain, falling of hair, eye lashes, can't sweat, etc....
none of it makes sense. Obviously everything works just fine, but she feels that she can't & believes it 100% & she's living by it.
This is why I'm more worried b/c for her, she doesn't believe it's mental related, but since she feels physical symptoms, she can only relate that back to her chiropractor session.
Pls someone with this experience advise me what I need to do b/c soon, I might need to take some of these anti-depressant medicine. ( that's a joke )
I agree the only thing you can do is be there for her also---
but I hate to add anything negative---but having a bipolar disorder--can shrink your brain and make you age quicker....
I am 43 year old---and I know that my central nervous system is damaged--and there is atrophy on the brain (very small brain)-the neurologist said looking at my MRI--I hear popping/crackling noises all the time--and believe my major depression is going into dementia..(I blame stress of Allergy SHOTs, my son's death and hereditary)---I am thinking intelligently---but I feel I am dying a quick death...So I feel my situation is real--
I hope your sister gets better...
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Posted by noona2
Hi- My sister is going through major depression that turned into bipolar psychosis. She's delusional. It's been over 7 months & she believes she's injured from a chiropractic malpractice, but it's really her symptoms of bipolar psychosis. She's been taking klopin & sleeping medicine. It only helps her sleep momentarily. Now she's taking zyprexa, which allowed her to get up from the bed for the 1st time & go outside. But she's still delusional about her condition. She still thinks she's injured permanently & has no feeling anywhere in her body. She also has a serious case of gambling problem, which caused this depression in the 1st place. She also has OCD. So once she focuses on a negative thing such as gambling, thought of pernament injury, etc.... there's no stop in her. It's been 8 months of sufferage around the family & although we're seeing a psychiatrist who's prescribing these medicine, she's only calling him an idiot & still don't believe these medicine is helping her. NOw that she's able to get up from her bed, she went right back to gambling & now, she's not eating & sleeping again, which will only cause her to go back in the same situation when she 1st started. I'm in a no win situation here. IF i leave her alone, she won't get up from the bed & eventual suicide thought will drive her to take action if it continues. If i give her the medicine, she will want to go gambling everyday b/c she believes since she cannot interact with people, this is the only thing that she's able to do. She feels that gambling makes her lose all thoughts of injury so she rather live & gamble until she dies than sit in her bed & die slowly, which she believes it will happen to her. She's only 43. I NEED HELP ! jino429@sbcglobal.net