I wonder, what triggered this woman’s bipolar symptoms??? Translated…
My younger sister who’d, relied on her antipsychotic medications to steady her moods, after being physically abused by her husband, and after he’d, made attempts to push her down the stairs, she’d, moved to a small suite close to our parents’ house.
The thought of divorce had, masked up her symptoms, and, she’d not taken her medication as she should have, and so, she had a relapse of her bipolar disorder. She couldn’t sleep at night, and would call up her families, friends, and relatives, and talked incessantly, and, posted articles on FB to show how upset she felt, and she’d even, hired a cab, to take her to Kenting, and gone of a shopping spree, and as she’d returned home, she’d called up the family, had us pay for her cab fare of over ten thousand dollars, and, she’d gone out to sing karaoke.
As our eighty-year-old father, took my mother, with hypertension, to try to get her to come home, in front of everybody who was there, she’d gotten down on her knees, bowed her head, and, in the pulling, she’d, scratched my father. And, out of necessity, we can only, call up the ambulance, and forced her to go to the hospital to get treated.
Other than going to the hospital every day, I’d also, needed to, pack up everything that my younger sister bought on her shopping spree, along with everything that she owned, to get the returns handled. On that day, I’d heard a man and a woman getting worse and worse in an argument, the man not only cussed the woman out, he’d even, started getting physically abusive on her. The woman screamed that she will call the police, and shouted back at him, “Other than beating on me, what ELSE are you good at?”
Then suddenly, I’d, reminded of what happened to my own younger sister, and thought of how there are, still many women in the society, who are being abused and are currently crying, in the unseen, unnoticed corners of the society. Some had, stayed with their abusive husbands for the sake of their children, even had, blamed themselves, for causing the abuse, rationalizing the abusers’ bad behaviors, and forgave their abusers again, and again, and again, then, when will the sun, finally shine through, to those lives? Women should become like sunflowers, and say NO to violence, seek help, so they can, see the love and hopes in life again.
That’s just it, it’s always easier, when you’re on the outside looking in, because you have an OBJECTIVE point of view on what’s currently happening, and until you get stuck and TRAPPED inside that same situation, you can NEVER know how helpless the victims of abuse feel, and how sometimes, they can’t leave, because they’re, too afraid, and, the woman’s bipolar symptoms, I’m sure, were triggered by the abuse she received from her husband too.