My mother is bipolar and is showing strange symptoms

For the past month and a half or so my mother (who is bipolar) has been showing strange symptons and acting extremely different. She sometimes laughs hysterically to herself and often shouts to herself or out of the window to people she believes are "provoking her", i have not seen or heard any of these people. I confronted her about doing this today and she said she thought i couldn't hear her, because i "had headphones on" (which i didnt). She always ask's me about the occupation of my friends fathers (never the mother) which is likely linked to the fact that my father who recently passed away was unemployed, and also an alcoholic, it's with this that she shows a clear grudge against all men, saying she "hates most". She's never been suicidal but has been hospitalized due to a severe break down but this was most recently over 10 years ago.

I often tell her there's no-one there, and that she's talking to herself and that she needs to get help, this is often done with an angry tone (this is not to be malicious, I suffer from some anger issues). I have no idea how to calm her down or how to stop her from shouting out of the window at no-one.

In addition, she always says how she hates the area we live in, this is often what she shouts about.

There was also once a time where we got onto a bus and she just stopped walking and stared at a mother and her son on the bus, giving them a dirty look.

I spend alot of time away from home (regularly staying at friends houses over the weekend, and school/revision on weekdays) and she expresses her concern whenever i'm at someones house, even if i've been to said persons house countless times. This is ALWAYS because of the father. When I was going to see a friend, she didn't allow me to go due to the ethnicity of my friends father, and she thought it was "suspicious" that his mother had died during childbirth. which brings me on to my final point that she is always suspicious and always think's that people are out to get her. At one point there were some teenagers outside our house and she believed they deliberately chose to be there and were almost targetting her.

I'm only 16 and have no idea what to do, how can I help my mother? I've tried to tell her to call someone or get help but she refuses it and insists she's fine.

Thank you for any input/help you may be able to offer.

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