Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

I was recommended to this group by the suicide prevention line.
a little about myself: I myself suffer from PTSD, Major Depression, Panic disorder, and Anxiety as well as a peronsality disorder. I have an almost 3 year old son. I left his father a little over a year ago now who also suffered from bipolar disorder and it just got to the point where I never felt loved and they were just abusive and manipulative. Unforuntately when he left our apartment he moved into the same building as me 2 floors under me. He still obsesses over me and attempts manipulating me. I have ignored all harrassing, degrading messages and don't give a response to anything other than having to do with our son. I started dating my best friend who also ended up having bipolar disorder. We have been together a little over a year and were friends about a year before that. We have had our ups and downs mostly but those are for another day. Recently (Like the last two months) he has been obsessed with keeping me from talking to my ex even about our son, as time goes on he has gotten more violent towards me and just plain aggressive, agitated, threatening. It gets to the point where he tries getting into fights with my ex even in front of my son. He says he just doesn't want me to be talked down to by him anymore and he can't control his feelings. He has been obsessed with hurting my ex and I just don't know what to do. I have tried calling his parents and getting them to take him out to cool off but the majoirty of the time they ignore my cries for help and won't even show up. During these times he will usually be up then go back down then be up once or twice more in the day with aggression. We talked with his therapist together for the first time and made a decision to change my number to quit the harrassing texts from my ex but even though I did this it didn't seem to change how he felt about the matter. When we were dropping my son off my ex began asking for my new number and i told him he couldn't have it we began walking upstairs and they started bickering back and forth about stupid stuff like my dicks bigger and i have a job etc to each other I asked them to stop but they wouldn't and when we got to the top of the floor my boyfriend began attempting to spit on my ex with my kid there with him and threatening to kill him he spat on me during this and I thought he was going to hit me. I tried getting his parents to have him stay with them for a few days but they wouldn't even do anything and he has nowhere else to stay or go to cool off during these episodes. This affects me greatly as it makes me worry about my son and myself being caught in the middle of his anger as well as affects my ptsd with previous abuse and suicidal thoughts and self mutilation tendencies. Our relationship is strained and I am on the edge of having to kick him out if things don't get better. He has never acted like this before and I feel like it is turning into a repeat of getting manipulated and emotionally abused like my last relationship.
So since you got a little bit of the back story I'm looking for advice on coping mechanisms to use when he is so angry or crisis plans because I fear myself and my kid as he has threatened to do things but hasn't done anything so I want to educate myself more and have some idea of what to do when he gets stirred up. I don't want it to come down to us breaking up because of this. I care for him deeply and he made me very happy before all of these issues. I have no family that live near me. Neither of us really have any friends or anywhere to stay to be seperated during the manic times. Please help!
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.

Is your fella medicated? We can offer ideas and support, but as we are on the other side of the coin, its going to be minimal. There are many flavours of bipolar. And it can affect us all differently. I think speaking to those on the same side coin might give you more of a shared ecperience
I'll speak for myself. Finding the right meds is imperative. Therapy too. It all depends on the severity of my episodes. Agitation is a real hard one. If its mild, meditation and mindfulness can help. When moderate, that can be harder to do. I feel physicality can help. Walking, housework, anything to try and dissipate the excesses. When its severe only meds help, sometimes inpatient is needed
Through trial and error we find what's right for us. Close, personal support is incredibly important too
For me, ativan can calm me. But I'm on seroquel mainly bcs of it. I've found haldol really helpful, but that's an older generated antipsychotic, not used much these days.
Its just gone 5am. I've been on here since 9pm last night. My left hand is protesting, can't bear to hold the phone, so best find something else instead!! Bloody munchies too. Damn that bloody seroquel.
Before I head off, there's a lot of legit sites out there about bipolar. Idk if you've done any research that way? That's a good place to start.
I've read up on it a lot and with a lot of my own emotional instability I can understand a lot about the control of ones self I'm just not used to such anger sometimes and it sends me into flash backs. A lot of what I do is to myself rather than lashing at others.
From what I can tell he does well with the depakote for the brain itself sending him into an episode instead of triggers. That's why I'm looking for tips on coping. and looking into some medication to help with agitation/anxiety from triggers
Your son will be learning how to treat women from the men in his life..... This is really bad IMHO.... If you need to I would go to a women's shelter and keep you and your son safe.... You both deserve better then this..... xo
PTSD board
https://www.dailystrength.org/group/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd
https://www.dailystrength.org/group/physical-emotional-abuse
That's power and control and it's very abusive
Yes we can get angry/agitated if we're cycling however we can't attack people and make them afraid..... Even people with an illness have accountability
I'm glad that he's calming down sweetie..... Don't settle for abuse though..... for you or your child..... Big hug and a blessing......xo