Wow. You have hit on everything that spouses of bipolars experience during a marriage. I'm sure my wife could read this message and think she had written it. I really do feel for you. We're hard...
Thank you Chloe. Strange how it affects so many of us in the same way, with regard to the shadows part. On another note, Stephen Fry made a documentary named "the secret life of the manic...
by the way, this is me actually doing my best to hold it together.... I know, if I don't laugh I'll really go nuts.. lol...manic or what!.......
Well, for the last four years I've had fun and real nice time in the amusement park of life, but somehow I found myself on the roller coaster.... it sucks. So here I am AGAIN, as I have been many...
I also found that we bipolars need flight. We find ourselves needing to escape everything that makes us who we are, so that we can take stock, and begin to realise the things we like in our lives....
I believe a way to help the op would be to help the partner. Now, not all medications work in the same way for everyone, but the mood swings you mention are what I would believe to be from the lack...