Do people with Bi-Polar?!


Question: I'm wondering if any of you that have delt with others with Bi-polar, have experienced what I have.
Do they dig themselves so deep with lies and untruths, that they begin to place the ones their lieing to as the ones with Bi-polarness?
I have this friend, who puts the "Bi-Polar" onto every woman who he breaks up with, or the relationship ends. He jumps right in to say, Oh she's BI-Polar! He's the one that's been diagnosed as such.
Does he really, really hate this part of himself, where he feels it's such a bad, terrible thing to be labeled with, so he puts it on others ?


Answers: I'm wondering if any of you that have delt with others with Bi-polar, have experienced what I have.
Do they dig themselves so deep with lies and untruths, that they begin to place the ones their lieing to as the ones with Bi-polarness?
I have this friend, who puts the "Bi-Polar" onto every woman who he breaks up with, or the relationship ends. He jumps right in to say, Oh she's BI-Polar! He's the one that's been diagnosed as such.
Does he really, really hate this part of himself, where he feels it's such a bad, terrible thing to be labeled with, so he puts it on others ?

Sounds like this person isn't taking their medication or they need different or more medication. Bipolar people not on medication will blame others and lie but the believe they know everything. I don't think they hate themselves, if they do they need to get some therapy. My daughter is bipolar and when she goes off her medication she hates everybody that disagrees with her because she thinks she knows it all. Luckily, for the past 3-4 years she has been faithful about her medication and has been able to live a normal life, have a family and keep a very good job.

I'm not sure about Bi-polar but from what I've read there are some similar elements in ADHD.

As far as my son (ADHD) and his father (PROB ADHD too) and another kid I know is concerned, nothing is ever their fault! It's allways some one else.

It is allways, 'someone has stolen my tooth brush! and have trouble admitting their part in the toothbrushes dissapearance even when they find it in thier suit case from the holiday they've just returned from. ALLWAYS some one elses fault! Most fustrating. Or maybe they are Bi-polar too, I often wonder!

my sister and son both have bipolar and my sister used to blame her life on every one else,one of the signs of bi polar is self grander when thay are in the manic (up) , thinking that thay can do no wrong,cocky and overconfident ... he is projecting his flaws on outhers

it sounds like he needs his meds ajusted or to start taking them

agree with the first person, definitely sounds like he isn't taking his medication. i used to do that the first year of it because i didn't really KNOW what what happened, but i've realized from my research that all the lying i've spread back then was because i was having a 'manic episode' for months at a time. and the most unfortunate part of that was it was the first year of highschool, so i'm stuck with a rep i didn't mean to have. your friend needs to get help for his problem because he's blaming everybody else for what he has because he's either going through a manic episode OR is ashamed of his disorder. best of luck, you need to talk to him about why he thinks that, when i blamed others it was me just trying to cry out for help to my friends but didn't really know how to ask...so i blamed people for what i have. research lying impulses and manic episodes...it should help ya understand.

I'm bipolar. I also take alot of medication. Maybe that's why I'm so open about it. I know that i have a distorted view on reality and tell this to people if i feel they don't understand. Or if i know I'm distorting things.

But I'm bipolar. And sometimes i don't take my medication. Then i no longer have this 2nd person realization that i have a distorted view on reality. Everything feels so real. Everything is so real. That there is no way that it could exist any other way. Things get extremely cloudy in my mind. And i will deny that i have any mental health issues at all.

The thing about bipolar, no matter what kind you have, is that it is a progressive disease. It will get worse as you get older, and it will destroy you brain the worse it gets. Many bipolar patients that don't seek help will commit suicide, others will unknowingly destroy their lives.

It is really hard for others to see that a bipolar person is crazy when they are on medication.

It is even harder for a bipolar person to see that they are crazy when they are not on medication.

I don't think your friend even knows what he is doing. And it is quite possible that subconsciously that is how he feels. But i think to him, that is the reality that his brain has set up and he cannot see or think past it.

Or he could be right, crazies seem to find other crazies.





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