Hello,
I’m at a loss. My partner, when recently ex due to the difficulties, has a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and Adhd. He also has experienced extreme paranoia that presented like psychosis. But I noticed some patterns after being with him for almost two years and I’m wondering if I’m right and he may always have type 2 bipolar.
So on top of his mood swings in a day, he seems to have periods of time where he is consistently low and then suddenly high.
When he’s low he:
- sleeps more, complaining of having no energy
- does less work/engage in hobbies
- avoids social situations
- pushes people away (and where his PD plays a role, feels he doesn’t love any one)
- but will still engage in pleasure seeking behaviours to get an instant boosts like flirtatious to other women.
- more suicide ideation and self harm
Recently he’s seemed high, his symptoms are:
- a little less sleep, before he’d sleep until 1pm on the weekends but now will wake up at 10am and be ready to go. But he is still feeling tired.
- talking a lot more than usual, and sometimes about a lot of subjects
- very irritable
- engaging in risky behaviours, acting on impulse, meeting girls (which he knows upsets me but he does it any way), spending more money
- suddenly doing work, engaging in his hobbies and being social.
- feeling happy
- becoming very paranoid: he thinks his neighbours hate him, that I’m cheating on him, that the police are out to get him, that I’m making fake social media accounts
- suddenly being overly loving, when he isn’t irritable, reaching out to his parents more, being very attentive to me.
Because of his current state he met a girl behind my back and became very hostile, accused me of cheating and been very difficult so I had to walk away this time. But I want to understand the situation better. Is this type 2 bipolar? Or something else.
Thank you