Bipolar Support Group

i am really wondering this. cause of the many post i have read from SO's they seem lost when their partner has a episode, but then i read success stories about couples who last 20+ years with one person being bipolar. as far as my relationship, my boyfriend treats me totally normal when i am totally fine. he doesnt baby me or sweet things up, he treats me like everyone else and i like that. when i am having an episode, he is sweet and understanding, knows not to push me but helps me motivate myself to become better. he basically looks after me and has no intention on leaving me cause he loves me bipolar and all, that and i am pretty easy to deal with anyhow. so what is your SO like? i know my family try to baby me and keep me under lockdown even when i am well cause they dont want anything to trigger me though they are my one and only major trigger lol

Jazz, my hubby treats me like everyone else also. I don't even feel like I'm sick around him. He takes care of me when my moods are out of wack, especially when I'm depressed. He hates to see me sad and does anything to make me feel better. He never complains about me having bipolar and loves the good along with the mood swings. He says I'm his one weakness and it scares him how much he loves me. My sons take care of me also. I'm very lucky to have this wounderful man in my life. I don't know what I'd do without him. He also listens to me talk about Bipolar and how I'm feeling. He takes me seriously and treats me like I can accomplish anything.

Robert pacified me so he would not have to deal with my triggers and my behavior. He just made sure that NOTHING in my life ( that he could control)could trigger me. He realized it was better to keep me happy than to deal with me upset. I now realize that he just fed into my mood disorder.

My husband handles me great. he tries to keep me calm by hugging me and he always makes me laugh even when I am mad. I just got married on June 6th, 2009 and it feels great although we have been through some troubling times with his family, my family has excepted him.

Mrs.Lane

My husband is good once he realizes that I'm just having a meltdown. When I'm in the middle of it, he tends to get angry at me (which doesn't help) and makes me feel worse. Once he's calmed down and realizes I'm not bad enough to go into hospital he's very supportive and trys to distract me so that I feel better.

My SO gives me a wide berth. However, my SO's ex-wife was Bipolar and was not seeking treatment, so she was REAAAAAAAALY bad (suicidal, drug abuse, etc), which makes him not so tolerant now. He's already told me he won't deal with that again. I wish he would be like everyone's posts above.

My SO is very supportive for the depression, possibly as he suffers too and knows what it is like. I don't know what I would do without him.

He is not so good for the mania, he gets angry with me, and this makes me angry with him. He just doesn't understand and always makes things worse. I feel so unsupported. Usually every manic episode it gets to the point where I kick him out of the house to get him out of my face.

My family are hopeless too, they get angry when I am manic and act like it is my fault. My mother even slapped me once because of my being manic. My sister won't let me be alone with my nieces for fear I will say something bad, which hurts.

I have one close friend who is very supportive, but with the rest of them, we just don't talk about it and it is swept under the carpet.

My pdoc is great, he doesn't judge me. I haven't met many mental health nurses who are supportive either, most of them try to control me by getting angry with me rather than listen to my feelings of hurt.

I also feel people dismiss my feelings 'oh she is bipolar, ignore her'. Bipolar people have feelings too! Our feelings are probably more intense too. I wish there was more understanding for us.

My SO is "hands off". He's like that with everything though. He has high functioning autism, so feelings are not his thing.

He doesn't support me, but he's not mean to me either. He is getting to the point where he'll ask me, "Is this the beginning of mania?" which is big progress for him.

I'm throwing material in front of his face and he is reading some of it. He did not believe the diagnosis at first, but I guess that he's accepted it now. He doesn't really say.

My wife sometimes is confused and doesn't understand me because when hypomanic I will have overwhelming energy at times or be deeply involved in doing something. Other times I act as if everything (almost) is a joke and I laugh about things that are often only funny to me and crack jokes and sometimes I am just plain annoying and she sometimes jokes that she has two kids.

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alot of mine use to think i was crazy dont make her mad she may go off,lol.