hey coal!

just want to give you and your hub a heads up with the natural route in conjunction with FDA approved bipolar meds. Please don't let him take anything without talking to his dr first. bipolar meds have some deadly drug interactions. xoxo puzzld

ps - sorry i've been away for so long. i go into hiding sometimes.

MandMs, Coal, jennmez, junebug77, & puzzld:

I know this post is rather dated, so I am going to give this a try anyway. Sorry if I missed anyone in this post. I have a couple of questions for y'all. One is: Are any of you Bipolar? (I am just asking, wanting some background information from you.) My second question is are all of you female? Because it sounds like it from you answers.

A little bit of background on me: I am 44, was diagnosed a rapid-cycler Bipolar I back in 2002. I think the rapid cycling has subsided (at least for now), and I get mostly manic episodes, maybe 3-4 a year, two of which I ended up in the hospital for.

A while ago, my wife was planning a romantic evening for the two of us. You know, dinner, intimacy, the whole nine yards. She was on the computer, and found a Yahoo instant messenger named NaughtyGirl (I don't know if that is correct or not), and that really pissed her off. She cancelled the evening, and told me about it, and the only thing I had to say was "That is perfectly harmless.", I got rid of it, and naughtygirl was no more. My wife brings her up now and again, but nothing really other than to poke fun.

I guess what I wanted to say was, Bipolars do things that they really don't mean. Sometimes they are harmless, other times they are not harmless. Just hang in there and be as supportive as possible, (I know that gets old). You need to try and be respondent to their needs, as well as making sure they stay medicated.

I am sorry if I overstepped my bounds.

Something else...Further back in the thread, someone was wanting a success story on a healthy relationship. I don't know if mine is a success, but we have lasted 19 years. I really can't remember life not being married. My wife is the best, she has stuck with me through thick and thin. The mood swings, the spending sprees, the doctor & hospital bills, substance abuse, just to name a few. I feel like a failure. She has lived with brittle type one diabetes since she was nine, and I am the one that should be taking care of her, not the other way around. Anyhow, that's my marriage story (an overview), and I hope I am married another 19 years.