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I have a sister that is 63 years old.  All of her life she has sent hateful, mean and vicious letters to everyone of us siblings.  There are 7 of us and to our parents who are now deceased.  She has a way of taking what is said into a context that is twisted and wrong.  Then she turns it around and brings up horrible instances in that person's life.  Most people are so hurt by what she says and emails or writes to them that she is living a very solitude life with her husband of 45 years.  Even her kids won't be around it.  Is this part of bipolar?  Help!

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Hi, Patty . . .

While some people with bipolar disorder are irritable, angry and inappropriately suspicious, lots of people have those characteristics as a manifestation of a personality disorder that has nothing to do with bipolar disorder.

Best regards . . .

Ivan
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Ivan Goldberg, M.D.

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I am a psychiatrist/psychopharmacologist with many years of expereince in treating individuals with depressions, manic-depression (Bipolar Disorder), other mood disorders,. I am especially interested in the psychopharmacologic treatment of individuals with so called "treatment-resistant" syndromes.

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I have been on the staff of the National Institute of Mental Health, Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. I am currently in full-time private practice in New York City.

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