Here is a suggestion Pamela...

Before making a decision to end your relationship as based on your boyfriend's lack of understanding and your own hurt about that, I suggest you consider the following factors:

- Overall length of the relationship
- Commitment level of the relationship
- What the relationship is like during times of stability

The truth is, just as your episodes affect you, they also affect him. Just as you can be hurt, he can be hurt. Just as you have a responsibility to manage these episodes in your life, he also has a responsibility to manage his response to these episodes as well. However, just as you need someone to cut you some slack from time to time, he might also need the same.

If your relationship is such that he is someone you want to be with, someone you recognize as reasonably healthy outside of crisis points, maybe what you should do is to mutually make a committed effort to learning some better methods of communicating with one another. It sounds as if his method of communicating right now ends up leaving you feeling hurt and not understood. It also sounds as if he's feeling hurt and not understood too.

Best of luck with it.

~ Namaste