bipolar father out of control Posted: 05-05-08 14:32pm
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?
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