I wasn't sure, so I looked it up for you. I found that yes, steroids can definitely influence anyone, and may have unique effects on people with bipolar disorder. They may bring on a mania or a depression.
Read this:
"Anabolic steroids, used by a generation of athletes to build muscle and bulk until so many dangerous side effects appeared that most of these drugs were banned, can potentially induce mania. The corticosteroids, which would have included the medication prescribed for Jane Pauley's hives, have been seen to induce psychiatric symptoms in studies. In "Steroid-Induced Mental Disturbances" (Perry & Lund, revised 2004), the authors report on a 1972 study by the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program where patients who took different doses of Prednisone (a corticosteroid), from lowest to highest, had an increasingly greater incidence of mental disturbances: psychosis, mania and depression. The paper also mentions that while mania is the most frequent response to the use of steroids, depression is often triggered by steroid withdrawal."
an article from about.
Once again, though, this is not necessarily the reason he is acting distant. It could be from the steroids, it could be from a depressive state, it could be because he just isn't in to you. Only he would know.
