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Sun 12/28/08 05:03 PM
Is this daily mood swings or solid depression or mania? Has she been diagnosed? If it is daily she could be rapid cycling, usually accompanied by an unreasonable amount of focused activity, lack of sleep, kinda like someone on cocaine only barely manageable. Sometimes folks who do rapid cycle, after a few years will start to experience larger psychotic breaks.
You should get professional help. Even just living with someone with a mental illness takes its toll, maybe you could use some help as well. Just a thought from a non professional

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Sun 12/28/08 04:52 PM

no meds , since they don;t have an issue it is all someone else problem



Ultimatum, meds/psychotherapy or the highway. It is no help to this person to even slightly enable that process. Also be aware that this is a progressive illness, that means after every episode it will get worse the next time. Tough road. I have two friends that are bi polar and several family members and friends that work in the field aiding dual diagnosis folks.

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Sun 12/28/08 04:46 PM
Feel it all. Talk alot. Let yourself be lead to the next place in your life. Kill bitterness (bitterness just means that in someway you are denying what happened. Which never really helps). Avoid romantic comedies, get a neurotic pet (they are excellent at distracting). Take up cooking things with alcohol in them, but just drink the alcohol instead. Smoke some dubage and watch The Mighty Boosh. Write about it. Dance whenever you are angry (it just makes it that much less serious, especially in public)

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Sun 12/28/08 04:33 PM
It is not whether or not to love that is the question. Rather: what does your head tell you to do with it?

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Sun 12/28/08 04:29 PM

I would like that short & sweet answer...so I can just move on. However, I actually have been doing the same thing right back at him...and even told him I felt he wanted me gone - and that was not a problem with me. I asked him, "you agree?" A great easy out right there. He looked as if he just lost his best friend...and said, "Are you searious?" I'm still scratching my head. I will just go- no prob. loss is nothing new here.


Sorry, just read this one and have to change my response a bit.
Oh how we all get accustomed to the way we communicate with our partners. When that changes, so many of us want to think the worst. Usually all that is needed is that change in the way you communicate with him. Life happens, things change we question ourselves. We forget what it was that really was exciting about that person upon first meeting or connecting. For me in the past having gone through times of questioning, it has been difficult to maintain the right kind of communication in relationships. What has most effectively gotten me out of those "funks" was something fun, free-spirited, honest, bold, or simple silliness.

What I am saying is try to break the momentum of fear and all the bad possibilities by doing something different.

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Sun 12/28/08 04:20 PM

I'm not able to sleep again!! I need to just get a guys point of view b/c I'm am obviously not going to figure it out. 5 yr realtionship...sudden changes in behavior & others. Yap...ya know what I'm thinking. plz chat


Make it fresh. Do something new. Something you know would pull him in, then go from there. If it is all still the same.... I am a firm believer in direct and clear communication. List it out, be honest and hope for the best.

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Sun 12/28/08 04:03 PM
Fish Tail IPA
or
Total Domination