When I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with anxiety. 

But I was definitely hypomanic and anxious. I used to get so irritable, hide things from my parents, get super aggravated. 

Now, many years later, my dad always talks about my episodes in insane negative detail. 

“When you’d like constantly, yell all the time, be angry constantly, cause shit, and be mean to everyone.” But he follows with “I didn’t understand what was happening” 

It hurts me because I remember trying as hard as I could to calm myself, beg the world for sleep, and wish I could calm down. But all he seems to do is bring up the knife-in-my-heart kind of topics. 

I think he’s trying to relate? Maybe say ‘hey I recognized this in you’? But the way he talks about it is so hurtful. 

Anyone have any ideas on how to explain to him that the way he talks about my manic episodes so negatively hurts me?