[RomanJames2014]

Hey GUys!

I tend to get more on the hyper sexual side and I am always brought down in fear when I land from hypo mania and mania because of STDs and stuff like that. I like sex, but sometimes it's just so annoying and I hate myself for wanting it so much. I hook up too much with strangers and when it's happening, I am loving every minute of it but I am so afraid that one day I will slip and not use protection or get my self hurt or killed.

For those of you who experience hyper sexuality, how do you harness it? Does it affect any relationships that you have? I am afraid that the next person that I try to start a relationship will get annoyed by it or worse, that I will hurt them.

I have not been as happy manic lately. I've been more depressed and sad and angry manic so sex is in there but for all the wrong reasons I feel.

Thanks'

[fishin fool]

I do have stories about this issue but the truth is I am not really ready to put
them out there but I can relate.

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Oh I've been there. Had a "buddy" at the time so it worked out lol. But I also have had many issues with drinking throughout my 20s and would get hypersexual. Maybe it was mania I was self medicating for at that moment seeing that I was off meds in my drinking sprees and used substances to "fix" myself. I've never found a complete stranger but a coworker, friend, friends bf, friend AND their bf lol. Yea I've made many situations awkward in my days and I regret it all so much. Now I'm in a committed relationship so I have my bf and if he's not around I deal with it (take that however you want lol). However I've cheated in the past on people and felt horrible after. I was a train wreck growing up. Hell, I still am but I've definitely calmed down on the slut life lol. Some may judge me based on this reply but I'm just being honest.

I handled it two ways: One, I sweated it out by myself most of my life, from the time I was about 9 years old. Two, I had occasional flings, and two sexually empty marriages. I was not doing safe sex, and had a couple of irritating but minor STDs. Three, I married another bipolar!!!!!!!!!! Heaven on earth for 11 years!!!! (He was unipolar manic.) We called him "EverReady," and all I had to do was give him "the look" and we'd roll in the hay right then. I like being the instigator, but once I instigated, he was The Man!!!! Unfortunately, he gaslighted me and was sneakily abusive, so I finally divorced him. Besides, I criticized him unmercifically and yelled at him. He told me this revealing thing one time, "I don't get mad. I get even." Things disappeared, etc. Then I started meds and lost all my sexuality. That was actually fine with me!

subscribing to this thread

I experience it... really a burden for me. Also don't feel so ready to share, I have before and was kind of judged.

[Theseus]

I've been super horny lately but being married I would never hook up physically. I've been using internet sites and doing the right-knuckle shuffle a few times a day. I get into really raunchy sexting with other guys I never met, never will meet, will never talk to again once the novelty wears off. I keep telling myself to stay off the internet, but I find myself drifting back to it. It's not interfering with anything, but ironically, I just don't like it, and I don't think that's who or what I am.

[campervanman]

I can relate to that also! `BUT` as I have just joined, I will wait awhile and test the water!

Regards
A

After one divorce, I asked my doctor to spay me, like a cat. He said, "People can't be spayed!" After my next divorce, I asked another doctor to spay me. She was very kind and understanding, but she said the same thing -- "Sorry, I can't do what you ask." Neither one of them informed me about antidepressants!!!!!!! Yay! I'm cured of sexual desire, and don't miss it at all. Only thing is, of course, if two people were married or had a partnership and a happy sexual relationship, an antidepressant could could ruin their marriage/relationship! The only professional-field discussion/info I've seen about loss of sexuality due to antidepressants is about the person's sexuality who's taking the meds. Nothing about their relationship.

[campervanman]

I to am divorced from 2005. (10 yrs and three step daughter`s) First yrs were fantastic, happy doing the house up, telling bed-time stories too the two young girls. I felt wanted and needed! (Bliss) `But` the last couple of yrs it started going down hill, as my demons (Loss, Hatred, Guilt, Crying, abandonment, Why it happened and the feeling of being un-loved, Again!!) and an un-healthy sexual desire (My fetish from the age of 6yrs) was once again rearing its ugly heads again!!!!!!!!
Now I would rather be on my own, as this will stop me hurting anybody else and the one`s I so dearly love. (My brother and his family) He is worried about me `But` he can never understand on what I am going through!!!
I wish I could be normal like other people!!!! I hate being the way I am, too me this is so seedy and wrong!!!.........................................

[RomanJames2014]

Thank you guys!
I know this is a touchy subject (haha) but I am just so confused... My bipolar symptoms have never get this bad and I am in a crazy place right now.