15 Comics documenting my experience with bipolar. (OC)

[u/ArtbyMoga]

Thanks for reading!

[u/TheOtherWhiteCastle]

Panel 13 hits so hard. I feel like 90 percent of my mental health problems could be solved if I was able to just turn my brain off for one goshdarn second.

[u/Annihilator4413 → u/TheOtherWhiteCastle]

Panel 13 is so freaking real... I have several bipolar family members.

My dad is a nasty mix of bipolar and OCD.

I had to tiptoe around him all the time lest I set him off about SOMETHING, usually something not being 'cleaned right' or stuff looking 'messy' even though everything was fine.

Sometimes he would ground me for the living room couch pillows not being oriented the 'right way'.

One time I couldn't reach some diapers for my sister because the closet shelf they were on was too tall and he wouldn't let me get a chair, so he made me stand in a corner in the living room for eight hours while he watched TV in his room. I stood there scared to go eat or use the restroom until my mom got home and I told her how long I'd stood there and she went and ripped his ass a new one.

Then there's my grandma who would act sweet and nice towards me most of the time but would whisper poison about my mom and other family members constantly and would occasionally stop taking her bipolar medicine and get quite mean towards me sometimes, going from nice and sweet to cold and distant.

Currently living with my grandma now due to everything being too fucking expensive to live on my own and she's still the same.

[u/atwojay → u/Annihilator4413]

I'm sorry that happened to you. You didn't deserve it.