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Originally Posted by Ripose
I don't have any friends except my wife. I did have a few about 13 years ago and I never told them about having bipolar but I am rather strange and that scared a few away. I scared the remainder away because I will not tolerate BS and I always call people on it, do that and poof the friendship is over.
Oh well, I do far better alone anyway.
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This is me except my wife has grown distant and cold.
The hard part is getting someone close enough to tell them without driving them off from BP effects (in my case hypomanic episodes seem to do the most damage) but not so close that they feel like I deepened the friendship pretending to be someone I am not.
I have not been "stabilized" in over 20 years - I am either up or down. This makes it even more difficult. I do the best when only slightly hypomanic or moderately depressed, but even with slight hypomania I am subject to blurting out things that are inappropriate and am often unapologetic about it.