Yeah. I have bipolar disorder. It’s not the scary crazy kind, it’s just crippling to my own self. Over the decades I cope with it by isolating myself whenever I’m not feeling well, which is most of the time, which has crippled my interpersonal skills.
My wife is bipolar type 1. Firstly, I feel for you. It’s fucking difficult. Very difficult. The only thing that got it under control for her was a full scale thermonuclear psychotic break, subsequent hospitalization, and a couple years of steadily tweaking the med cocktail until she found a middle ground between being massively depressed, completely numb, or emotionally raw and explosive.
It’s not easy, but she’s been stable and dare I say verging on happy for the last year, and things seem to be getting better by the day. It wasn’t easy for me to stick around, but I did.
Work on yourself. Get a good psych and good therapist. And hopefully you’ll find a partner willing to accept the difficult parts of you. I’m sure everyone wants your hotness, be wary of those people. My wife is hot too, but I wanted more than that. You deserve to be wanted for more than that.
You are strong for loving her through all that and staying by her side and caring enough to notice what she’s going through and the fact that you’re verbalizing it all here shows that you’ve paid attention to her and you care.
Yeah. I have bipolar disorder. It’s not the scary crazy kind, it’s just crippling to my own self. Over the decades I cope with it by isolating myself whenever I’m not feeling well, which is most of the time, which has crippled my interpersonal skills.
My wife is bipolar type 1. Firstly, I feel for you. It’s fucking difficult. Very difficult. The only thing that got it under control for her was a full scale thermonuclear psychotic break, subsequent hospitalization, and a couple years of steadily tweaking the med cocktail until she found a middle ground between being massively depressed, completely numb, or emotionally raw and explosive.
It’s not easy, but she’s been stable and dare I say verging on happy for the last year, and things seem to be getting better by the day. It wasn’t easy for me to stick around, but I did.
Work on yourself. Get a good psych and good therapist. And hopefully you’ll find a partner willing to accept the difficult parts of you. I’m sure everyone wants your hotness, be wary of those people. My wife is hot too, but I wanted more than that. You deserve to be wanted for more than that.
You are strong for loving her through all that and staying by her side and caring enough to notice what she’s going through and the fact that you’re verbalizing it all here shows that you’ve paid attention to her and you care.
I positively adore her, and we’ve both put in a lot of work on ourselves to get here. Thanks for the kind words. Wish you the very best.