You are never going to win when dealing with someone with a mental illness especially if you don’t get any help. In particular expect a very difficult time with someone with Bipolar Disorder who has in particular got it in for you especially someone extra close to you. Dealing with someone with possible a mental condition is a real mind game. Once you realise fully about the incorrect treatment, mistreatment or abuse against you it is already most likely already completely out of hand. Especially if that is someone extra close you will naturally be totally reluctant to even begin to think that something is wrong simply because naturally that is the last thing you would want to think about that loved one. Usually what happens is gradually some possibly inherited psychological issue, mostly dormant for years within someone slowly begins to emerge in early adulthood. It can however manifest itself occasionally in various unusual and sometimes excessive interactions and orientations. Of course there are various signs that combine together to show something is just not right in situations like this but one in particular is for a son or daughter to acquire an abnormal distaste towards in particular a mother and/or father. They can then set about turning anyone they can against their own Mum and/or Dad by spreading controversial and negative things about them. It doesn’t matter if those controversial and negative things are not really that serious as the person with the mental condition can be very astute at seriously distorting and over exaggerating those things. The person with the mental condition can also try to divert attention away from themselves and their unusual and sometimes intense interactions and orientations by then trying to make out it is the mother and/or father that has the problem and not them. Someone with a psychological issue and in particular Bipolar Disorder can be incredibly savvy at deceiving and manipulating people. Then things can go a bit mad as the parent or parents desperately try to get others to see something is wrong and the person with the issue then simultaneously tries to convince those same people that it is the parent or parents who have the problem. This leads to a tug-of-war between the person with the mental condition and the parent and/or parents of the person with the psychological issue. Naturally people who are or get extra close with the person with the mental condition will side with that person and those extra close with the parent or parents will naturally side with them. This absolutely tears whole families apart as they divide into camps either with the person with the psychological issue, the parent or parents of the person with the mental condition or somewhere in the middle. Of course this is both horrifying and devastating for the entire family but in particular the parent or parents of the son or daughter with the psychological issue. Eventually the odd treatment, mistreatment or abuse of the parent or parents either comes to light or people start to realise that. When that happens and only then can the son or daughter with the mental condition be persuaded, encouraged or forced to get the help they might need. Until that happens entire families can be caught up in situations like this for years, continually at loggerheads over who actually is the one with the problem rather than getting to the real heart of the matter. Clearly the prime symptom of a psychological issue is extra serious wrong behaviours and/or involvements. For example the seriously inappropriate treatment of a parent or parents who haven’t done anything so terribly wrong to deserve that. The person with the mental condition becomes completely wound up in there bizarre fixations and obsessions with those they have it in for and everyone else around is just basically along for the ride. They can be so subtle, cunning and manipulative at their odd treatment, mistreatment and abuse that no one even suspects what is really actually going on behind the scenes and in particular behind closed doors. Often they would have been working away in the background with their odd fixations and obsessions and overall maliciousness already turning whoever they can against the particular person they have got it in for. They can be so good at this that neither the person being turned against nor those turning against that person are totally oblivious to what is really happening. However even though someone might be unwell all this mind games and associated torment is horrific for anyone to have to deal with especially when those around that person being unfairly improperly treated, mistreated or abused. This is even worse when it is a son/daughter or boyfriend/girlfriend or partner/spouse who is doing that to their own mother/father, girlfriend/boyfriend spouse/partner. Apart from actually losing a son/daughter or boyfriend/girlfriend or partner/spouse the next worse thing is for them to manifest some mental condition and wrongly treat, mistreat or abuse you. This is an absolute torture no one should ever have to bare. To avoid this it is absolutely vital that as soon as a close family member, friend or acquaintance says they think there legitimately might be something wrong with their close family member, friend or acquaintance that those around that person and those extra close to that person take proper notice of that. However keep in mind that also the person with the psychological issue will most likely be doing the same. However the key to knowing who specifically has the mental condition is to look at who actually initiated the situation in the first place. The person with the mental condition will always be the instigator and the other person the reactor. Of course the immediate reaction is to dismiss any close family member, friend or acquaintance implying anything about any mental condition about their son/daughter or boyfriend/girlfriend or partner/spouse simply because it would naturally be very difficult to even consider something like that with a close family member, friend or acquaintance. However once again it is absolutely essential once anyone legitimately says they think there might be something wrong with a close family member, friend or acquaintance that the people around that person immediately sit up and take some real notice of that. Otherwise the incorrect treatment, mistreatment or abuse of the close family member, friend or acquaintance will only continue for possibly years and most likely only get worse and worse. Unfortunately what usually happens is the particular mental condition doesn’t really come properly to light until the person with the psychological issue also does something really incorrect in relation to other people and in particular if the authorities become involved in that. However in the meantime the wrongful treatment, mistreatment or abuse could go on for years. So once again if in particular a close family member, friend or acquaintance ever legitimately says anything about their concerns for the state of their close family member, friend or acquaintance who has instigated some wrongful treatment, mistreatment or abuse take proper heed of that. You never know you could be the next person to suffer if not.