He hasn’t had a full manic episode since we got married, and hasn’t had hypomania in the last ten years. Lots of people with Bipolar Disorder have brain changes in the late thirties and early forties that make their symptom severity worse, but Ghost seems to have gotten better as far as mania goes, possibly because he’s stayed on medication since his early twenties.
If he’s talking to his parents every weekend, and me (or a different person if he doesn’t feel okay talking to me) in the middle of the week, then I think he would be as stable as he is right now. I could call his parents, one of his besties, or his brother to come talk him into going inpatient if need be. I’m a big piece of his support network, but I’m not the only thing standing between him and doom; the way it has sometimes felt. And since his family doesn’t know about the drug use, I have at least one way to blackmail him into getting help if he super needs it.
I get that my relationship to Ghost and his relationship to me are tied up in this, but what other relationships are you thinking this will change things for, if you think there a four of them?
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If he’s talking to his parents every weekend, and me (or a different person if he doesn’t feel okay talking to me) in the middle of the week, then I think he would be as stable as he is right now. I could call his parents, one of his besties, or his brother to come talk him into going inpatient if need be. I’m a big piece of his support network, but I’m not the only thing standing between him and doom; the way it has sometimes felt. And since his family doesn’t know about the drug use, I have at least one way to blackmail him into getting help if he super needs it.
I get that my relationship to Ghost and his relationship to me are tied up in this, but what other relationships are you thinking this will change things for, if you think there a four of them?