Hi, so my 65 year old mum suffers with bipolar, I’ve seen her have her manic and depressive episodes, they always seemed to last a good 2 to 3 months and the depressive episode was her feeling really down and sleeping a lot and feelings of worthlessness. 

She has currently been in a low for 2 years now straight now, there hasn’t been a day she’s been good. She doesn’t say she feels depressed but just breaks down and says she doesn’t feel good all the time; nothing brings her joy. It’s way different than her old depressive episodes, it just seems her brains dopamine or something is dead and she just feels no joy with lots of anxiety. She appears very weak and frail with terrible concentration, her brain doesn’t really take in information and it just seems like every day is pain. They are giving her ect every single week and she keeps telling me it doesn’t help and I get scared it’s making her worse and killing brains cells or something doing it so often. I also fear maybe it’s her medication cocktail finally catching up on her brain and body because this is so much more pronounced and longer than what she’s had before.