Re: Dating someone bi-polar
If you are stable it can work. Two erratic personalities can easily fall in love, but will have great difficulty remaining together.
Bi-Polar in a great many cases can be minimized and in some cases eliminated with a proper exploration and understanding of one's mind. Meds do help but many cause significant withdrawal and their can be some crazy mood swings if they are changed. Therapy is where it's at, but it has to be often and consistent enough to be effective.
The biggest key, I swear, is to severely curtail the use of alcohol and narcotics. Often they are used to cope with the downswings or celebrate the upswings and they end up making the frequency and intensity of the swings so much worse. Plus, combining drugs or just alcohol with Bipolar meds just makes people loopy.
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