Long distance relationships are hard. I've been in a few. Never, ever, again am I letting myself get walked over like that.

I can be quite needy, but it's because I have trouble finding a middle ground between disclosing EVERYTHING and keeping everything to myself like I normally do. All my insecurities come crashing in on me and I get worried over everything.

I don't attribute that to my bipolar at all. I attitribute it to abandonment issues which I've accumulated through my family and my experience with others.

The ups and downs just don't help things, but they're not the cause of any sort of neediness I might display sometimes.