How to get a bipolar person to get treatment, if refuses to carry this condition?
My girlfriends mom told me once by phone that my girlfriend was bipolar. I started doing a little research and learned it is difficult to live with this sickness. I don’t want to brake up but my safety is fading out now.
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Unless you know for definate that your gf has actually been properly diagnosed for this disorder, you can’t tell her to get treatment for a disorder that her mum thinks she may supposedly have. I think you need to have a big long chat with your girlfriend about this and show her your encouragement and support, rather than fear about your safety. She needs someone like you to understand what it is like, and it seems that her bipolar is not an extreme case, otherwise you would have known right away with her behaviour. It’s caused my having major highs and lows, and if she has been properly diagnosed, encourage her to get the treatment as you care for her and want her to get better!
IF your girlfriend refuses treatment – count on a roller coaster ride….You will have a few weeks of the "life of the party", followed by a few weeks of severe depression….over and over and over again.
Also – note this is a hereditary disease – so if you get married to her, you have a 50% chance your kids will have this too.
My first husband had this disease, refused treatment, and during one of his bouts of depression he shot himself.
My advice – tell her treatment or bye-bye. If she says "ok, I will get treatment", make it known that the very first time she doesn’t take her meds will mean the instant end of the relationship.
I also advise you not to have children with this lady. If you love her and want to stay with her – ADOPT…..Yes, I know this is "politically incorrect" – however, if you want to prevent yourself from having a freakish nightmare for a life…you wont make babies with her.
I wish I had heard of bipolar diseases before I married my first husband….it sure would have saved me lots of years of extreme heartache….
It’s definitly not difficult if/when she decides to start taking her medication. However, it is embarassing at times. I don’t like telling people about my condition because they react all freakish about it and end up running away. Show her that you’re not going anywhere and she may be more responsive to getting treatment if she has already been diagnosed, or more willing to get diagnosed. If she hasn’t been diagnosed yet, have her call her Mental Health Department and they are more than willing to help in showing the proper direction to take in order to get diagnosed. If you threaten to leave or give ultimatums of "Get help or I’m gone." Then 9 times out of 10, she will simply cut off her nose to spite her face… meaning she won’t do it. Both my brother and myself are bipolar (He’s Bipolar 1 and I am Bipolar 2) and neither of us respond well to threats.
It’s only difficult to live with this if you have no patience and are an aggitated person yourself. Nobody even knows that I am Bipolar unless I tell them, but that’s because I try not to ever miss my meds. They are incredibly helpful.
Don’t give up on her.