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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I’m interested in how you figured out about the BP and the infidelity. I understand that you got an STI - is that what triggered it - that you got tested for some reason and then came home and confronted him and he confessed?  or did you have to drag it out of him?

Similarly - how did he get diagnosed? By primary care doc? By psychiatrist? By therapist (LCSW? PhD? other therapist)? Is he taking meds currently? If so, what kind - mood stabilizer? Anti-depressant? Is he taking them willingly? regularly? transparently? Do you attend psych appointments for at least part of the appointment? Does he also see a therapist regularly?

Answers to these also point to likely future outcomes. [/quote]
Yes, I had symptoms, got tested, got diagnosed, confronted him, and he confessed to the Craigslist encounters, which he said ended in 2018.  (I believe him for various reasons.)  Frustratingly, he never had symptoms and he tested negative.  Which apparently can happen.  There's nowhere else I could've gotten it.  But it still adds yet another layer of confusion to the whole ordeal.

He had been diagnosed with Bipolar II about 6 months ago by a psychiatrist.  His primary care doc had been prescribing meds for anxiety (Lexapro), but his anxiety was only getting worse, so she sent him to a psychiatrist, who immediately suspected Bipolar II and put him on lamotrigine.

DH never told the psychiatrist about the hypersexual episodes because he feared I'd find out somehow and because he downplayed in his own mind their significance.  I was actually the first one who tied the cheating to the bipolar diagnosis because I have a relative with bipolar disorder and am familiar with the hypersexuality component to mania.  I just didn't think DH had mania that extreme.  Like I said, I can't even discern when he's manic.

He has since told his psychiatrist about the sex, and the psych added mania to his diagnosis and prescribed lithium.  That was 2 weeks ago.  Yes, he takes his meds willingly, but I don't watch over him.  He has his first therapy appointment next week, which he's going to alone.  We both agree I should be included in the appointments eventually, but it's early days -- I have no idea how often these appointments will be.  So far, it's been very hard to get mental healthcare.  But he does agree that he can't self-report his own symptoms.

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