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It sure is difficult living with someone who's moods change so rapidly. Never know what triggers it. The only thing you can predict is constant change and fluctuations🤣

Thanks for checking in. Ups and dow @×+1 as usual. At least he is,able to work. He injured his back a few days ago so I have to care for him both financially and physically. It is like having a child often. No different from my two doggies who are eternal children!

and not all people with bp behave in this way. some are stable.
i am one. the trinity i use, meds, psychiatrist and support.
i have learnt the signs of mania and address it. and the crash.
defiance and loving the mania and manipulation is what a lot
of peeps with bi-polar love and use.

The H...so true. I have come to find that so many people are "afraid" of bipolars. They think we are all off our rockers. I'm very high functioning. In fact my newest psychiatrist and latest therapist both challenged me saying that they didn't think I was bipolar at all. I told them, well, I'm under control with the lithium, so you haven't seen the pendulum at all! However, even so, I'm very high functioning and mostly "normal."

Loquito, it really does depend on how well the person understands themselves. Like H says, if you're really paying attention to yourself over the course of treatment and learn to recognize your triggers and how to either avoid them or work through them, then the illness does not take so much control of your life.

I've found bipolars are usually pretty bipolar in their illnesses too. With that statement, I mean that they either really care about helping themselves, or they throw up their hands and say, I'm broken, I can't do it!

He's been on meds for about a month. He's still mildly manic but on the whole able to come out of the moods quickly. Seems to be able to deal w things more calmly. Lets c how long this lasts fingers crossed

Well he's unstable again. Short-lived. Don't know if he's off his meds again. He worked a week and his boss said he needed more skill. He is depressed again and blaming me. I'm always the one he takes it out on. He's talking trash to me. Thank God I keep my outside friends otherwise I'd go nuts!