Dated? I was married to one for a lot of years , sadly she hid the fact that she was mentally ill for a long time in the beginning , but once she had me by her side , her mental illness started to slowly shine in front of me to the point I was like WTF , I immediately tried getting her help and the meds they put her on would work for awhile but then they would stop working and then it was back to square one having to get her help again , sadly I tolerated this shit for a long time because I loved and cared about her and our children , unfortunately she got worse and worse through the years to the point I couldn’t handle it anymore , I realized I was married to Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde , She would be sweet and loving to me, then all of a sudden turn into this evil demon that had it out for me , it was definitely a rollercoaster marriage that I do not miss whatsoever
If we are all honest with each other. and the way Society has labels for everything. I'm sure we could all find something different or off about us.
If I meet someone that has been given that label I can either except it or look at it deep and challenges it in my own way
No matter who someone is or what label they have given there self or given to them
I look deeper because I need to understand I need to feel it because sometimes words are just words and mean nothing. Sometimes nothing becomes something because of words we all see and feel things different.
Oh, honey. Never ask a man this question. From the male POV like 98-99% of women are nuts. It's like asking if a fisherman ever hooked a fish without a mouth. I mean I'm not saying you're all nuts all of the time. Sometimes it's just glimpses of insanity. Like the shadow of an airplane quickly passing over a street.
Yes, I dated somebody who I think was bi polar. She had a lot of issues. Her parents abused her as a kid and her brother did weird stuff to her too.
Every few weeks she would just go crazy. She would argue with me over nothing and would call me the most cruelest things imaginable. She used to hit me and once she bit me so hard I still have the scar. It was like she was a different person. I think she was an alcoholic too. Her whole life revolved around drinking and partying.
It was fun at first but one day I suggested that she see a shrink. She stopped taking my phone calls so after a few weeks I took a ride to her house to try and talk to her. She was living with a friend and her boyfriend in a big house. They told me that she moved out. They said she went to live with some friends but did not know where. I think they kicked her out.
Unfortunately, we didn't know she was bipolar at the time. After we broke up, she started going to therapy, which ultimately led to a diagnosis some time later.
I only learned of this when she reached out to me a few years afterwards.
Her mood swings were all over the place, and pretty extreme. We fought and argued, a lot, seemingly out of nowhere. It was really rough, on both of us.
Yes, I did. She broke down into psychosis one day without warning signs except a pesky anxiety, then the dance of ER, psychiatrists, meds and therapy started. It took six months, three admissions for one month each, and different synthetic molecules tried to reach stability.
Hats off to psychiatric nurses 🎩
And thanks free social insurance too, otherwise the whole process would have brought her financials and those from her family directly to bankruptcy
I dated one who didn’t have it under control, but we were both teens in high school and I later learned that doctors won’t even officially diagnose certain mental disorders until you turn 18
She turned out to be schizzophrenic. I found it suspicious that she often argued with spirits residing in our home walls, or even in my own body. Over the course of 5 years we and a spiritual Christian group gained control over these spirits. Some home equipment did not survive it. But she's a lot better now.
I think so, she was an opera singer, we weren't together long, she started unraveling on our first date. She would write me these long letters for over a two years after we stopped seeing each other. The last piece of info I got was that she was voluntarily in a mental health facility. That was about 5 years later? I wish her the best!
Yes i did and I found out six months in at time it was good but when it was bad it was really bad. She would at times have these manic episodes for no reason and please be careful cause they can get violent. If you decide to date some one with mental health issues be very careful cause it can get out of control really fast
Yes, and I was married to one. I believe he suffered from depression and didn't know it. He was a control freak. I did my self a favor and it was the most difficult decision I made in met life, but I know I am much better off now.
You could say that. My 2nd girlfriend had some kind of breakdowns pretty much every 18 months. I heard about her having one (her 1st or 2nd) before I even met her. She was my guitarist's girlfriend at the time.
I'm unable to tolerate being around mentally ill people. I can't even tolerate most average people. I tend to only hang around those who either have exceptional intellects, exceptional creativity, or exceptional talents (usually all 3).
Yes. Mentally ill people have either one of these two diagnoses, possibly both: 1. Female 2. Republican/Conservative I have dated these but I learned my lessons the hard way through The School of Hard Knox. I would not date either again.
@Lokiion Dating Men? No. I am old and I am smart enough now to know that the most important things in the universe are: 1) Health 2) Freedom 3) Money - to buy health and freedom.
Other people put constraints on your life and constraints are the opposite of freedom and, often, the opposite of health because that lack of freedom induces stress and often wastes money used to buy health and freedom.
I mean that's true but they sure help when you have something serious like schizophrenia or clinical depression. It doesn't eradicate all symptoms but it does make you more stabilized.
Unfortunately, yes. I will avoid making that mistake again as much as I can.
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Yes it turns out my first ever boyfriend was a pedo, and most boys since then that I've dated have been sociopaths
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Anonymous
(18-24)
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She wasn't diagnosed mentally ill, but she definitely was pretty high on the chart, would've stuck through thick and thin with her, if she didn't cheat on me.
Yes, and married her. Didn't know about her condition (hid her meds) after two years in and notice odd behavior problems she had a complete violent meltdown
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