How can you deal with love onces who have bipolar issues(manic disorder)?

Now my bf and i love each other very much.

I knew for awhile he had bipolar issues .

yesterday, We was talking and everything was alright until next thing i know he is blowing up at me, cussing and everything. Then i end up yelling at him and he got worse. he start calling me names and everything. It was one time i felt like leaving. I didn't really feel like being in this relationship anymore. I love him and he knows i love him and im willing to keep working/supporting him. Its just sometimes i get furious and i need a break.

I think he feels im the only one who loves him.

He wont take his medicine. He thinks he don't need it .

sometimes when he make me so mad i tell him he either take the medicine/ counseling or im leaving.

But can you help me on how to deal with someone who has bipolar issues?How can you deal with love onces who have bipolar issues(manic disorder)?
Unfortunately if he won't take his meds he will not get better (hearing a common theme among your answers.....). You do need to tell him that he either stays on meds and in counseling or you leave......... and you need to stick to it. Your only other option is to tolerate it just like it is now and know that it will just get worse with time..... Trust me, I'm bipolar, I know what it takes. Good Luck.How can you deal with love onces who have bipolar issues(manic disorder)?
I broke up with her lol
He needs to be taking his medication, otherwise he's never going to get better.



You said yourself that you don't feel like being in the relationship, so you really ought to break it off. If he refuses to get help with his disorder he is always going to be abusive and mentally unstable. It's rough, but people with bipolar are a lot like addicts in a way. They have to want help to get better, and it looks as though your boyfriend has no intention of getting help.



Give him an ultimatum, tell him you can't stay with him unless he's stable, and if he still refuses to take his medication then you have to move on. He's not going to get better without it.
Medicine is the only way to treat bipolar disorder. But when patients start feeling better, they don't think they need it anymore.



He needs to talk to a professional.
Drag him/her to this:



http://www.bipolar.com/treatment_options
Well if he won`t take the medication, then your relationship is over. It`s hard enough dealing with him on meds, ( yes we do have breakthrough moods on meds). He`s got to be on meds.Put him on medication, and then recommend cognitive therapy to him, ( behavioural therapy). It`s very common for bipolar sufferers to refuse medication, they feel fine, ( mania can be euphoric), not to mention most of the population on the planet won`t aknowledge mental illness...it`s hard for him to believe he`s sick
If u give him an ultimatum stick with it or u will be his doormat forever. I lived with someone who was bipolar and aself medicator with alchol. Not a pretty picture. I thrived when he would disappear for days, weeks and sometimes months. You need to live your life too and its almost impossible to do withsomeone who doesnt care about themselves.
I am bipolar, and even though I'm on meds, it's uncontrolled. It's not easy being the loved ones of bipolar people. He does definately need his meds. If you stay with him, find a support group for people with bipolar loved ones. Don't threaten anything you don't intend to follow through with. If you keep telling him to take his meds or you'll leave, but you don't, there's no incentive for him to comply.

Good luck to you both.
You're 15 and you've been asking this question for 2 months. He's bipolar and ADHD. Dump him and find someone else. You're in love with love. At 15 going on 16 you don't need this. He's 18 according to one of your earlier questions. He knows he needs to be on his meds. Previous answers told you that more than once. Walk away. How many times do you need to be told? And he wants to have a baby? And you've asked about having sex? Are you nuts?
Without medication he will become unbearable, and there is no point in you wasting you life for him if he doesn't care about his own. Honestly, being someone that has mental illness I can say that sometimes it is too hard to deal with the person. I suggest you leave him if he doesn't get help.
go to www.nami.org/familytofamily

this is a great program for family members or friends of people who have a mental illness.



also for him, go to www.nami.org/connection

check that out. on the top click on media, watch the video about nami connection. it is only 9 minutes long.
I dated a girl with bipolar disorder for a year. I loved her more than one could imagine and was ready to put up with her. She said she loved me very much too. However, it was way too much to put up with her. It was difficult to move on from her because the way she loved was obsessive and spent every single free minute with me. Later I found out that she is just that way with everyone. She could not help herself cheat on people. She could not control her sexual behavior at all. The broke up happened and I don't know how much of it was due to bipolar. When in a relationship with her, I sometimes felt that I was getting mentally ill.



Bottomline: It would be really challenging and difficult for you to stay in this relationship. You may forget what it is like to be in a normal and fulfilling relationship. Unless he is welling to work with you, you alone cannot take the relationship anywhere better. Good luck.
He NEEDS HIS MEDS

they usually go off meds to get the mania back

but as you can tell mania is the shorter lived episode with bipolar.



';im willing to keep working/supporting him';

Stop feeling this way he is your boyfriend not a child.

He has to come to terms and deal with this illness meaning therapy and meds. Enabling him just makes the situation worse for the both of you and he will never learn to deal on his own