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Anyone here have any experience with bipolar disorder?
I ask because...well, my boyfriend, whom I've only been seeing a month, is bipolar. This does not in any way bother me, because he's taking medication and dealing with it...but as he goes through a period of adjustment with new medication, I don't know exactly how to deal with things. I'm not giving up on him, by any means, but a friend of ours told me there are days he doesn't want to pick up the phone when I call, and while I completely respect that...I want to know how to KNOW when he's having days like that. Because /I/ have days like that, sometimes, and while I'm not bipolar, I'm just depressed.
So I need to know HOW to deal. Or at the very least I need someone I can talk to about it, so I can learn how to remind myself it isn't ME, and that I'm still fine. If that makes sense.
Ugh. I love him- I do- and I want to do everything right. But I've never dealt with this before, so I don't know exactly what 'right' is.
I ask because...well, my boyfriend, whom I've only been seeing a month, is bipolar. This does not in any way bother me, because he's taking medication and dealing with it...but as he goes through a period of adjustment with new medication, I don't know exactly how to deal with things. I'm not giving up on him, by any means, but a friend of ours told me there are days he doesn't want to pick up the phone when I call, and while I completely respect that...I want to know how to KNOW when he's having days like that. Because /I/ have days like that, sometimes, and while I'm not bipolar, I'm just depressed.
So I need to know HOW to deal. Or at the very least I need someone I can talk to about it, so I can learn how to remind myself it isn't ME, and that I'm still fine. If that makes sense.
Ugh. I love him- I do- and I want to do everything right. But I've never dealt with this before, so I don't know exactly what 'right' is.