• @LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.worldOP
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    102 years ago

    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.

    • @Fecundpossum@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      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.