Another Bipolar Mother
The hits here have spiked recently, coinciding with the news that Newt Gingrich’s mother has bipolar. For anyone looking for that story, it appeared in ‘The Daily Beast’ at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/22/newt-gingrich-s-bipolar-mother-kit-gingrich-and-his-difficult-childhood.html.
According to the article, not only was his mother bipolar, but his mother divorced his father when he was less than a year old. He found out about his natural father when he was 15, and confronted him in a traumatic fashion. His adopted father was tyrannical, distant, and cold.
There are questions about whether Newt Gingrich inherited bipolar from his mother. He certainly seems to have some signs that might point in that direction – affairs (plural), excessive energy & motivation, grandiose thoughts, risk taking. But those could also be the result of the environment he was brought up in.
Reading your blog has helped me in more ways than one. My mother is bipolar. As a child we had a very rocky and hard relationship. When I was 17 I moved about three hours away from her our relationship improved. I am now 23 and married, recently my husband and I fell on hard times and were forced to move in with my mother since he has no close family or else we would have been on the streets… having to deal with all the same things as I did when I was a child is tasking, emotionally draining and I find myself spiraling back into depression. Are there any support groups I can join to help myself? My mother refuses to take medication or to get help, its a continuous battle for me to keep my head above water.
my daughter has been diagnoised as bipolor she has three young children i can see the damage she is doing to them.when she is depressed she neglects them when she is manic she does crazy things with them.HELP! what should I do