Hello,

My husband's father is a 70 year old man that has been diagnosed with bipolar disease 5 years ago. My husband and I live in Canada, but his family are all in Italy. His father is taking 450mg of lithium carbonate daily, and is a very large (overweight) man. He has recently been in a manic period of extreme energy, productivity (he tries), and has been extremely abusive verbally to his wife and daughters at home. He is constantly angry and has been recounting to anyone who will listen to him how unhapppy he is with his life, including his wife and all he has done in the past. He is nagging about people who are dead and what they did to bother him. He is also keeping a journal writing his life story. He has told a close family friend that he "doesn't have much time left". He is out all day so we are not sure that he takes his medicine in th pm. He will not go to see doctor, and we think he may be suicidal....what to do?