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.
Have a therapist tail me in the street as I interact with people? That sounds like a really expensive therapist. But oh how often I wish I had a therapist with me all day every day to work with me through every glitchy moment.
Therapy.
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.
Specifically CBT. Have a therapist tail you in the street as you interact with people, and then compare your impressions with theirs
I genuinely don’t know the meaning of this shortening and google did not help. What does it stand for?
I’m guessing they mean Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cock and ball torture
Also works for attracting a certain set of men.
Cognitive behavioural therapy
Yes, cognitive behavioral therapy, my most recent workshop they call it “dialectical behavioral therapy.”
Those are not the same - DBT is more intense than CBT
Have a therapist tail me in the street as I interact with people? That sounds like a really expensive therapist. But oh how often I wish I had a therapist with me all day every day to work with me through every glitchy moment.
I did at university for my own anxiety issues, and it was free as part of student counselling. Probably not anymore, given the world and all…