Sunday, January 28, 2018

Trying to figure out if my relative has bipolar disorder or not?

I'm not asking for a diagnosis, but I'd like input from others if the symptoms I'm describing sound similar to someone they know who has bipolar disorder?

My relative has a bunch of personality problems that seem to have gotten worse over time. He's very easily distracted by random things and doesn't have good time management at all. He loves to say "I don't have time", but a lot of his time is wasted on things like making 4.5 page long random emails to people. He still hasn't taken care of important stuff like calling the VA to help take care of his father which could save him a lot of time. Also, he gets up extremely early and ends up taking long naps in the afternoon (1-3 hours) despite my insistence that he should be on a strict sleeping schedule

Whenever he talks about his business ideas, he talks like a person who's possessed and won't stop talking about it even after repeating the same points over and over again. Once at a family dinner, everything he said made up around 95% of the entire dinner conversation. Then he'll forget the other big moments that happened at dinner like somebody yelling.

He runs a few businesses that are severely in debt and yet he still thinks that he can get bailed out by getting more loans, but he never pays them off. He thinks that everything is going great and keeps having these random ideas and is extremely confident that he can become a multi-millionaire with all of his products. But I've barely seen any traction from them and he's failed at marketing his old products adequately which has led to dry sales. He only thinks about new product ideas and even wants to start a new business instead of managing the cashflow for his other businesses which is abysmal right now. He's also terrible at delegating tasks which leaves the employees aimless or having to do things by themselves. Whenever somebody tries to point out the faults in the way he's thinking, he gets pretty agitated. He even acts two-faced to the employees by telling them everything is great and we'll all be rich when he vents to his close family that he's broke.

Outside of his business investments, he's known for risky practices like trying to call me when he's driving his van. He even once tried to call me while driving a semi truck.

But the worst part about him is when he lashes out at his siblings whenever he sends emails to them. His brother is a lot richer and he's demanding $300K from his brother to cover his debts and he sent an email telling him to grow some balls and do it in Gigantic sized letters (at least 50 pt font). Then he tries to guilt trip everybody into helping him by bringing up these incidents that happened decades ago which should have easily been resolved by now. He even sent an email to his sister saying that she should look in a mirror saying everything is her fault. Then he claims everything is great for him and that she's responsible for her marriage failing since she's so negative saying she ignores her husband and can't "please" her husband anymore when all his sister did was send an email saying that their deceased Mom told them to look out for his mental well being.

My family can hardly stand this behavior anymore and his brother floated the idea he could have bipolar disorder. I've checked out some of the symptoms and it definitely sounds like he's going through hypomania a lot of the time and he takes anti-depressants which could make it worse. But I just wanted some opinions from others who have Bipolar disorder or know somebody that has bipolar disorder if what I've described sounds somewhat familiar to you at all? If not, I'd like to hear any other opinions from anybody that read this.

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