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Originally Posted by lacerta
No, I stopped taking them about 6 month ago.
Part of dealing with BP for a lot of people is getting out of the cycle of treating those closest to us as repeated targets of our anger.
Is this? Never knew I'm not there alone, thanks
How do people cope with this?
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Oh, you are most certainly not there alone. Being aware of that goes a long way to helping your relationship with your partner stay healthy. I became aware of it very early from watching my parents. My mum has either schizophrenia or bipolar and she has had the most abusive relationship with my dad that you can imagine. He has been her verbal punchbag for 60 years. Me too - she cycles through her rages and takes them out on us as a matter of course. That made me swear I'd never treat my own partner that way. It's so easy to slip into that cycle of raging at people close to you, not just when you have BP but for anyone, I think.
As for coping, just realising and acknowledging that you have an unhealthy cycle of anger developing in a relationship is 50% of dealing with it. So many people are in denial that there is anything wrong that nothing can change.
Darvula