AudreyLaura
Junior Member
Oregon
Hello,
I am an eighteen year old girl living with my parents. I have two younger sisters, ages 14 and 17. My question is in regards to the 17 year old. She has bipolar disorder, diagnosed in the early fall. She is on medication, but is still extremely out of control. She practically runs our household, because my parents cannot say no to her without her going into a rage. I am wondering if what she does can be considered a crime and be prosecuted. Here are some incidents that I remember:
When told to wait five minutes to use the cell phone to call long distance, she began to scream and cuss. My dad told her to go to her room, and that using the phone is a privelage, not a right, she flew at him with her fists. She began to attack him, so he did as the therapist suggests, restraining her by holding her arms down tightly, sort of like a hug until she calms down. However, she began to thrash around, getting away from him and throwing glasses and other items.
In another incident, she kicked my mother so hard, she developed a bruise around 4 inches in diameter.
In another incident, she threw a stool at my mother from two or three feet away. Then, she grabbed a heavy snowgobe and prepared to hit my mother with it, but I ran up and knocked it out of he hand as she prepared to hit my mother on the head.
This is only a sampling of her more dangerous behavior.
She has also thrown various other less dangerous items, including, c.d. folders, baskets, a teakettle, the phone, and the television remote.
I am very concerned about her and am terrified that something very bad could happen.
I know something needs to be done.
Is this considered assault since no one was seriously hurt? We are all terrified of her, and she calls each of us very bad names several times a day and threatens people to get her way. What can we do?
Thank you for any advice
-L
Hello,
I am an eighteen year old girl living with my parents. I have two younger sisters, ages 14 and 17. My question is in regards to the 17 year old. She has bipolar disorder, diagnosed in the early fall. She is on medication, but is still extremely out of control. She practically runs our household, because my parents cannot say no to her without her going into a rage. I am wondering if what she does can be considered a crime and be prosecuted. Here are some incidents that I remember:
When told to wait five minutes to use the cell phone to call long distance, she began to scream and cuss. My dad told her to go to her room, and that using the phone is a privelage, not a right, she flew at him with her fists. She began to attack him, so he did as the therapist suggests, restraining her by holding her arms down tightly, sort of like a hug until she calms down. However, she began to thrash around, getting away from him and throwing glasses and other items.
In another incident, she kicked my mother so hard, she developed a bruise around 4 inches in diameter.
In another incident, she threw a stool at my mother from two or three feet away. Then, she grabbed a heavy snowgobe and prepared to hit my mother with it, but I ran up and knocked it out of he hand as she prepared to hit my mother on the head.
This is only a sampling of her more dangerous behavior.
She has also thrown various other less dangerous items, including, c.d. folders, baskets, a teakettle, the phone, and the television remote.
I am very concerned about her and am terrified that something very bad could happen.
I know something needs to be done.
Is this considered assault since no one was seriously hurt? We are all terrified of her, and she calls each of us very bad names several times a day and threatens people to get her way. What can we do?
Thank you for any advice
-L
