Dating someone with bipolar disorder?!
Question:
Dating someone with bipolar disorder?
What is the typical month, let's say, in dating an extreme bipolar person (even if they're on meds)? Can anyone explain this rollercoaster ride to me??
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how can you expect someone to explain it to you "what ?" or "why?" when people with Bi polar can not even explain it or understand it themselves....... My fiance was Bi Polar.... some days she was the happiest person that you could meet...... like overly happy.... other days she was in a deep abyss.......it was hard work..... a constant struggle.... she was very needy....... she felt responsible for everything bad that happened...... and beat herself up about it...... However...she was also very loving and giving.... i would not have given her or what i had with her up for the world..... even in retrospect..... there were times when she isolated herself from everyone...... everyone except me.... those were the hardest times....it isolated me too..... sometimes i felt like a carer.... not to say she nbever cared for me.... cos when i was sick she did EVERYTHING to..... its not like she wanted to be like that, depressed and stuff i mean.... she tried really hard not to be,....... imagine your worst pmt... and then times it by 10..... and imagine it ALL the time....... its a chemical imbalance..... i used to hate it when people would say..."ahhh snap out of it"..... like "ummmmmmmm don't you think she would if she could?"... "you think she enjoys the way she is feeling?"... people are very ignorant about this subject...
unfortunately in the end i just wasn't enough.... she got tired of all the fighting i guess........ (not between her and i... we never fought.... i mean fighting with her own emotions) and one day while i was away...... she ended it..... she used to talk about it alot when things used to feel like they were "getting on top"... but i was always there to stop her and hold her... and then later she would say.... ahhhh thank god i didn't...... (cos her mood would have changed) ... this time i wasn't there..........
Bi polar people hurt... but they also love and know how to be loved... just like everyone else..... do not let people tell you not to do it..... BUT also don't let people tell you it will be easy.... cos its not.... you have to be strong...... for yourself and sometimes for them too