I suffer severely from bipolar disorder and I'm finding it almost impossible to cope with daily life at this time. I cannot hold a job and my health is constantly bad. My mother loves me and tries to understand, but she just doesn't know how to handle me when I'm having a particularly bad episode. I often suffer memory loss. My father tells me to grow up and just get over it. If only I could! I'm so desperate to learn to cope with my disease so than I can function like a real person. I am also bad about isolating because of my severe social anxiety. This makes for a very lonely life.