Abstract
This article aims at achieving insight into acquiring an understanding of parenting while dealing with one's own bipolar disorder. It is based on results from in-depth interviews of six parents with bipolar disorder, and analyzed using guidelines from interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The results from the study suggest the parents experienced diverse, complex, compound, and demanding challenges. However, the results also highlighted the fact that parents went through a “change and growth” process, in which they developed an experience-based competence perceived as being useful due to their living situation, including the strengthening of their parenting function and their personal recovery process. Aspects about how the time dimension in recovery, as well as how parents' dependence on their children can play both a central and paradoxical role in their lives, are discussed, which is then followed by implications for the support system.
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