Two months ago I was talking to my mom and she mentioned her mortgage interest rate was > 5%. I asked for a copy of her statement to look into refi options. Instead, I ended up making her mortgage payment. Why? Time for a thread on mental illness & what I learned about it. 👇
My parents divorced when I was 3. Mom remarried when I was 5. She had primary custody of me. She struggled with alcoholism and was diagnosed bipolar. She picked fights w/ my stepdad and the police came to our house often.
Sometimes the fights were violent. Once she ripped the phone off the wall (yes they used to be mounted to the wall instead of carried around in our pockets) and threw it across the room at him. At one point she was committed to a mental institution for 6 weeks.