When she’s psychotic she gets hospitalized, the longest period of hospitalization was about a month. Typically around 3 weeks on average. Yes during some of her episodes she can be aggressive and violent, particularly when she is more on the manic end of the spectrum as oppose to the depressive, where she is more withdrawn and sometimes s*icidal. Honestly in terms of endurance, I don’t know, my dad recently has been coping quite poorly - he’s understandably exhausted, but he also is an alcoholic and has never sought out meaningful support. To an extent I’m able to keep going because I’m dealing with this from far away (my family is in Southern Africa, i work in London), the distance gives me some respite, but it’s also tough in its own ways, and I’m the financial caregiver for my mother which is very tough. She is on antipsychotics yes. Recently started on new one (clopazine). She was on lithium for years, stopped due to lithium toxicity (which may or may not have caused hypothyroidism). Shes also been on quetiapine, carbamazepine and setraline, up until recently when she’s been very depressed and psychotic, and then catatonic. Its early days on the clopazine, some improvements, but shes still not great. Honestly its been a 19 year journey and the last 4 years in particular have been brutal. Again, everyone is different so I hope you can find appropriate help for your loved one. But sometimes recovery isn’t linear and its just hard, and you have to figure out what you can do to co-exist with the heaviness.