How To Love Someone With Bipolar

When you love someone who suffers from bipolar disorder you are exposed to every aspect of the illness 1.

How to love someone with bipolar. To help your relationship succeed focus on communication support. It is a challenging. The world is an extreme place for someone with this disorder and whatever pieces of stability they can latch onto are critical to their sense of well being. Growing up i lived with my mother and grandfather both.

Just as depression is one example of a mood disorder bipolar disorder is another. It is important when you are dating someone with bipolar disorder to recognize that their disease is a piece of their life pie and not their whole identity. Know that if someones mood appears to change a lot more than yours they probably have a mood disorder. There are layers to a person and peeling back the layers and starting to love someone with bipolar disorder is a beautiful thing.

Bipolar individuals often experience mood swings in which they vacillate between being manic and depressed. Loving someone with bipolar disorder can be scary but the person behind the disorder is worth the effort. That being said to a large degree a persons bipolar disorder contributes significantly to their behavior personality and relationships. Like people say if its difficult its usually worth it.

Whether its a moment of mania or a time slice in the depths of depression stability and love are critical. Fast is the author of loving someone with bipolar disorder take charge of bipolar disorder get it done when youre depressed and the health cards treatment system for bipolar disordershe is a columnist and blogger for bp magazine and she won the mental health america journalism award for the best mental health column in the us. To this moment i thought if i tried harder to work on me that she would love me consistently but as i read this makes sense that the confused person ive become is solely a reaction to her moodssounds so obvious now after reading. On and off with someone who was diagnosed bipolar ii.

Dating someone with bipolar disorder can be challenging because you cant control when your partner experiences a mood shift. They want to know you love them no matter what their current state. What ive learned from living with and loving someone with bipolar disorder is that expressions of love change at least temporarily in the midst of major mood episodes. Julie was also the recipient of the eli lilly.