Sexual Energy & Bipolar (Dis)Order

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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom So being off meds for awhile has increased my sex drive. But it may because I need that closeness to feel we (as a couple) are okay. 2-3x a day is the only time I feel like I'm not ****ing up. And that's with him being insight reassuring me. I can't imagine if he had to leave for hours at a time.

Security sex.

Yes and I stopped it since it was not doing anything. A lot of things are not doing anything for my sleep whereas they normally help others.

Latuda seems to be working now. Afraid to jinx it! Just have had three days on the increased dose.

Yeah I go through boughts of hypersexuality it has been awhile since the last time but when it hits it hits hard. Good luck to you.

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Honestly at this point I'm definte leaning towards being assexual. I knew there was a chance my surgery would destroy my sex drive. But saving my mental health was a lot more important.

Greetigns all, new here. Thanks everyone for sharing about such a vulnerable topic.

I have definitely gone through phases of hypersexuality, and now that I have learned more about this condition, it's easy to see when I must have been experiencing some mania in my younger days. I'm sure all the alcohol I was consuming didn't help! Thankfully I don't do that anymore. I am now on lexapro. I definitely have periods where my libido is higher than other times. I just had an episode last weekend and I have essentially zero sex drive right now. But the week before that my wife and I had (really great) sex once a day for a couple of weeks. Sex is something that helps us feel connected so we try to do it at least every other day regardless of what is going on in our lives, if not every day. If we go more than a few days we both start to feel disconnected and weirdly off.

I have had my share of infidelities and affairs, in basically every relationship I have ever been in. My first marriage was full of them - I think I had 4 affairs total, one of them lasting for over a year somehow. Not necessarily proud of that fact. One of them (the longest one) was with someone that I came to care deeply for, and we had a lengthy romantic relationship with lots of feelings. We talked about me leaving my wife for her but that never materialized. She is now married to someone else and is an excellent stepmom! We are still facebook friends and there are no hard feelings. Can't say the same about my other past partners.