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I know a woman who acts like she's two different people. She can be unassuming, sociable, able to perform employment responsibilities. And then she can without warning start to scream (I mean SCREAM!) without provocation for events that don't warrant such a trigger.
Example: At the wedding of her daughter, she told her husband to help a young woman who had fallen due to intoxication. When he helped her up and the young woman started pawing at him due to the intoxification, this wife started screaming that her husband was a pathetic, sex-starved womanizer who was so desperate to be intimate with a woman that he selected only drunk ones to make his move. Fifteen minutes later, she warmly greeted mutual friends at the wedding, cozying up to her husband with initimate endearments "Honey" and "Sweetie", hugging him, etc.
The fact that she can be under control one minute and not under control of herself the next is disconcerting for her husband and her children. Lately, it's like she's a spighet that can't be turned off. She's even yelling/screaming at her supervisors at work, earning her a warning.
Can mental illness be "managed" upon will or is it intermittent? What kind of condition does she have? I'm sure it isn't Aspberger's. Can bipolar be a possibility?
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