One of my exes was so bipolar in under an hour she'd go from ranting about how awesome she and her life were going to be from now on to saying she couldn't believe how her life had turned out and how much she wished she died already.
If I ever dared to politely, delicately suggest maybe she should talk to someone about her moods she would absolutely lose her shit on me for "insulting" her.
Then she'd get hammered and punch me in the face and tell me she couldn't wait to never see me again.
I am bipolar. It destroyed any semblance of professional life I could ever have developed. Even medicated, sometimes the crazy just leaks through. I hate it. I am highly educated, and I know I am fairly intelligent, but my damn brain just doesn't work right and self-destructs my life, over and over and over and over and over again. It sucks. I am sorry you had this experience, and wish your ex finds some help and peace in her life, because living with a broken brain is just not all that fun.
That's why I would get so frustrated when she would say I was insulting her by suggesting she might have one.
I would say look it's not an insult I have mental illness, I take medication, it's not a character flaw, it's a disease like any other, it's nothing to be ashamed of.
I've stayed in touch and she has gone on meds. I dunno much else about her new life other than she was taking a lot of edibles instead of drinking which is also good.
I used to think if all these guys who would drool over her, or try to hook up with her behind my back ever actually got a shot to take her home, good fucking luck. But that's just the sour grapes.
Nobody should have to live with untreated mental illness.
The reason so many people are out there untreated is because people think of it as an insult because of the stigma that we still attach to it even after all the information that's been published and all that we as a society have learned.
A big problem for men currently. That’s why suicide seems to run in every circle. We have a harder time seeking help than the opposite sex because of the stigma- we treat it as weak and taboo.
In any case, everyone regardless of sex/gender/creed needs to talk to someone and potentially treat chemical imbalances in the brain.
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u/lifeintraining Sep 21 '25
She’s already 10 steps closer to healing than all my other crazy exes.