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.