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How to navigate dating someone who has bipolar disorder?

Name: How to navigate dating someone who has bipolar disorder?
Uploaded: 2024-02-09T15:09:50+00:00
Duration: 6 s
Channel: Anwar White
Description: A short YouTube monologue (by Anwar White) offering blunt, experience-based advice about dating someone who has bipolar disorder. The speaker emphasizes…

9 Feb 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube monologue (by Anwar White) offering blunt, experience-based advice about dating someone who has bipolar disorder. The speaker emphasizes the emotional difficulty, arguing partners may need to become "tripolar"—holding space for both sides of the partner plus a distinct self—especially when symptoms are only partially managed by medication. The speaker likens the challenge to dating someone with substance use or gambling problems and notes that well-managed medication makes relationships easier.

Crown Black. How do you date a bipolar person? It's difficult. That is really difficult.
This sounds really flippant, but there's actually some truth to it. You are actually going to have to become tripolar.
Which means that you, you're going to have to hold space for kind of both entities of that person, but also have another side for yourself as who you are, which is a very difficult thing to do. Right. So most people are not built for that. Now, if they have, if they're on meds and they have it like, you know, pretty managed, great. But for those that are half and half with their meds, that's what it's going to take. It's the same as dating someone who is on drugs or has a gambling addiction.
You are going to have to be there for when they're on drugs, when they're off of drugs, and for yourself. Yeah.