Hello, I am new here and I apologize if there was a better topic to place this thread in.

My boyfriend has bipolar disorder and I really need some help understanding it. We’ve had this thing for about a year now, and it’s a long distance relationship. I never knew he had bipolar until just a few months ago when he told me, honestly I wouldn’t have ever guessed he had it. He started to not message as often about 3 months ago and that’s when he told me about the disorder. He said that his doctor was changing his medication and it was making him a little depressed, so I tried to give him some space when he needed it. Well fast forward to now and we barely talk anymore, last time I talked to him was maybe a week ago and two weeks before that when I’m use to talking to him every day. Last we “talked” he said he was avoiding almost everyone, which includes me but I miss him dearly. To be honest, before I started looking into bipolar I actually thought he was trying to distance himself from me and was trying to break off what we had without confronting me. I did some research and while I found some very helpful information, I did not find anyone with the same experience as me. I’m really just looking for answers seeing as I don’t get to communicate with him much about it. In the last month and a half I think we’ve texted about 3 times.