Hey, I got diagnosed with bi polar 2 In January. My first symptoms were in my exchange year in Japan when I was 15. I was bullied in my home country for being gay and had depressive symptoms, tho at that time I didn’t know that mental illnesses exist. When I was in Japan I had the most manic phase in my life. I spent in total 30 k went to the hair stylist every day. I had a lot of sex with older men I met online. I believed at that time that I could become famous in Japan, because somehow I was so confident in my outer appearance because I was the only German boy in my Japanese high school, so every one knew me. When I came back to Germany I fell in a depressive episode again so my parents sent me to a psychologist. My psychologist diagnosed me with depression, but one day I started hearing voices after my break up with my ex boyfriend. I was sent to a psychiatrist who didn’t realize that I have bi polar 2. He gave me mirtazapin which made me manic again. These days I take seroquel and abilify. Tbh I don’t know if they are perfect for me because I have a lot of mixed episodes. My mum ( I 100% believe she’s bi polar as well, with a lot of paranoid symptoms), found out about my diagnose and my meds and she forced me to not take them, but since I live alone now I’m taking my meds. The only thing that frustrates me really much is that she doesn’t believe in mental disorders. She doesn’t let me talk about it, she thinks my meds will kill me which makes me really anxious about taking my meds as well. Also nowadays she believes therapy destroyed me since I moved out because my mums mind is just fucking crazy, but that would take too much time for me to explain every thing about my mum. My question is, does anyone of you have parents like this. And how do u deal with it? Even if I think that my mother played a big role in my life why I became bi polar, her opinion is very important to me.  and often after meeting my mother I fall into a depressive episode because she keeps telling me that my bipolar disorder is fabricated to draw attention to me… sorry for my bad English I’m not a native speaker.