[Fishwhenican]

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Fish you mentioned not having friends over your house because you weren't sure how your mom would be, can you elaborate on the social implications of having a bipolar parent?

Some questions that come to mind:

Did your mom go to any of the PTA stuff at your school, or other functions?
Were you worried about your mom interacting with other people parents?

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Sometimes I was worried sometimes not at all worried. It really would just depend on what she was acting like at the time. There were stretches when she would be, for the most part, very normal. She would come to the concerts and all the school events then just like any normal parent. Every now and then she would say something out of wack at something like this and you would start to wonder what was coming next but usually it was nothing.

I remember as I got older and understood what was going on with her more I would get to where I could start to see breakdowns coming a long way off. I couldn't even tell you anything specific but I remember more than once thinking that things were going to start going downhill. When this started I just made really sure to not have friends over and all of that