I wonder if I'm late, I've got a question about people who are family/a SO of someone with bi-polar.
Recently my girlfriend (of 8 years) was in hospital for hypermania, she was then diagnosed with bi-polar, it was out of the blue and kinda of unexpected (I knew she was depressed, before the time admissions - but until the day she was diagnosed I actually didn't know that bi-polar was such a huge issue, mania, hypermania etc. it's serious stuff) It was probably the toughest 2 months of my life.
Anyway, she's out and as expected she's going through a huge low. (Which I was told will happen) But we're both struggling, our relationship is falling apart and I have no idea how to approach things, it seems as though I'm not doing anything right even though I try to take on board everything she says.
Anyway enough with the tangent...
What is your advice to someone who's with someone who's got bi-polar? It's probably a broad question and I personally feel a lot of guilt behind it since the event came seemingly out of nowhere and I'd consider myself the biggest part of her life (as I consider her to be mine).
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I wonder if I'm late, I've got a question about people who are family/a SO of someone with bi-polar.
Recently my girlfriend (of 8 years) was in hospital for hypermania, she was then diagnosed with bi-polar, it was out of the blue and kinda of unexpected (I knew she was depressed, before the time admissions - but until the day she was diagnosed I actually didn't know that bi-polar was such a huge issue, mania, hypermania etc. it's serious stuff) It was probably the toughest 2 months of my life.
Anyway, she's out and as expected she's going through a huge low. (Which I was told will happen) But we're both struggling, our relationship is falling apart and I have no idea how to approach things, it seems as though I'm not doing anything right even though I try to take on board everything she says.
Anyway enough with the tangent...
What is your advice to someone who's with someone who's got bi-polar? It's probably a broad question and I personally feel a lot of guilt behind it since the event came seemingly out of nowhere and I'd consider myself the biggest part of her life (as I consider her to be mine).
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