I think my mother suffers from mental illnesses. A couple of years ago she was diagnosed with bipolar disease. However, something different, something peculiar stood out to me again this morning.

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Yesterday she had too much to drink. While she was drunk, she told me yet again that she wants me to go to a particular school to study although I am on a different career path at the moment. She has been telling me to apply since many years, so yesterday I finally had enough and told her "yes, ok, mom, I will apply to that school tomorrow". (I told her no many times but she would go on and on for years so I gave in, I have no strength to argue anymore).

Now the kicker: This morning she swears up and down, even on the life of my child, that it was MY idea to apply and that she was surprised that I wanted to get in to that particular school. 

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Guys.... I am baffled. I KNOW that she was the one who kept going on and on about me applying. Now she claims the exact opposite happened.

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This is not the first time that this happened. I KNOW that something took place in a certain way, but then she comes along and swears that it happened differently. She is not faking it, she really is convinced that she is right. When I try to prove her wrong, she gets extremely aggressive and accuses me of gaslighting her! I am so exhausted... I am starting to believe I AM the crazy one. 

Is that a mental illness and if yes, how is it called?