its 3 am do YOU know where your children are ?

So ya know how bipolar is also commonly called Manic Depression (because those are the 2 most common, and extreme, states) well someone should rename it to WHY-ARE-MY-FAMILY-MEMBERS-STILL-FREAKING-AWAKE-AND-SCREAMING-AT-EACH-OTHER-AT-3-FREAKING-AM syndrome.

Yes because that is my life. The ONLY time everyone is asleep in my house is between the hours of 4-4:30 am. On a good day, everyone is dead to the world then.

Here's our sleeping schedule
Dad 8pm-6am (that lucky little bast... (no, only use nice words) ...duck )
Brother 3am-5 or 6am
Mom on a good day 4am-4:30 or 5am
Me whenever I get the chance, heck last night I finally got to sleep at 7:30 am

As you can see, its like living with a newborn baby. Oh plus the fact that we have enough sleeping pills in this house to knock out a herd or elephants. But does anyone use them OF COURSE NOT!!!!!

Bipolar people are notorious for being able to function on 2 or less hours of sleep and not being sleep deprived even though they can continue this pattern for months at a time. Why my mother informed me the other day that she only gets 20 minutes of REM sleep a night and hasn't had a dream in over 3 years. (how that woman hasn't died from exhaustion, don't ask me, I guess its just another mystical gift of the disease)

So lets recap here its now almost 3am, my mother isn't home, my father has been out cold for hours and what is my brother doing? Why watching Jerry Springer of course! I mean WHAT ELSE DO PEOPLE DO AT 3 AM? SLEEP? PSHHHH SLEEP IS FOR WIMPS!

Isn't my 'normal' routine pleasant ?