Would you have a relationship with someone who has bipolar disorder?

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  • laura - 14 years ago

    I vote that I would never date myself.because though I work with therapy and meds for mantain my mentalhealth ;I feel that live with a mirror of myself would be very unpleasant.
    I am stable now, I had two years ago my first internation in a psyquatric clinic, very open mind but it was a bad and terrible three months experiencie for me and my family.

    Now I feel very deeply that I don t wish to live again that horror.
    Beleive in myself and feel I am very intelligent but bipolar disorder goes by the way of some disfunction that its ok if I assume my disorder and take with responsability the meds.

  • kiara - 14 years ago

    My neurology is beset by Bipolar Disorder II (and therefore ADD of course).

    For me, a romantic relationship is an emotionally intense experience. Emotional intensity (my own or that of another) is a predictable trigger of an episode: hypomania progresses to dysphoric psychotic mania, mixed with suicidal depression.

    My treatment is effective for sane and sober living (psychiatrist, psychotropic meds, psychotherapist, lifestyle). Currently I am in a phase of BPD called 'euthymia' (a period when BPD symptoms are 'in remission'). BPD is predictably unpredictable, I'm liable to be broadsided at any time.

  • Vicki - 14 years ago

    My live in boyfriend is bipolar and as long as he stays on his meds he is great, recently he had to take a break from them for a while due to changes in his blood work that his doctor didn't like. After about a week he was going back to his old ways which I can't tolerate. Thank goodness for the meds or we would NEVER make it!!!

  • Brita - 14 years ago

    I am the only one of a four-person family who is NOT bipolar! And all the three of them are wonderful people!

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