mental health/illness and relationships--- TW

Chastity

I have a question for anyone willing to share or give advice. -- How do you deal with each others mental health in your relationship?- My SO is paranoid-schizophrenic and is medicated. I am hypomanic bipolar and also medicated. (i know it isnt a good mix having two mentally ill individuals in a relationship.) However, he still hears things, hallucinates, and has mood swings. He easily gets triggered and will go off on me and say a lot of hurtful things and even accuse me of talking badly about him, laughing at him or calling him names. - I've always reassured him when he has flair ups or moments like this, that I will always love him and never let his mental illness cause me to love him any less. But, I feel it ripping me apart and causing a lot of emotional exhaustion. - I realize I also have moments as well. Usually I try to go relax or find ways to keep myself together when I realize I'm having an episode.- Recently he's bounced around a lot of being super loving and happy, then like a switch he's back to angry and accusing me of things that I haven't done or said. he will say hurtful things to me and won't apologize once he's realized he may have overreacted. - We have been living together since January. I never knew about his triggers until almost two months ago. that's when he started to flip out on me a lot. - He does see his psych doctor every two weeks and every time they have upped his dosages recently. -- How do you all make it work out or how do you cope, whether it be one or both have a mental illness.

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