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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is very odd that you can't see the evidence of the illness. Bipolar is typically pretty evident since the diagnosis requires fairly extreme mood states and people's behavior changes as they move between them. You would definitely see evidence of hypo mania and depression. It doesn't sound like he has has mania as you would 100% know if there had been a manic episode. This doesn't really seem to add up to a typical presentation. Memory can definitely her hazy or be remembered through the distorted lens of hypo mania.[/quote]

OP here.  It's all very confusing for the reasons you state here.  I thought I was knowledgeable about bipolar disorder before this, and I never would have suspected he had it.  His cheating episodes were so wildly outside his normal behavior/personality that when you read about hypersexuality -- the danger, the anonymity, the homosexuality -- it sounds textbook.  But, like you said, very little else seems textbook.  EXCEPT there are some other things we've read about, particularly "loss of sequencing," that hit home big time.  The sample fights and interactions in this book he's been reading about the disorder read like a SCRIPT for the fights we've had the past couple years.  But yeah, the tricky part now is every time he's irritated or absent-minded, I think, is he manic right now?  Or is this just normal emotion?  We no longer know what's his personality and what's the disorder.  And that only matters if we have hope that it can be treated successfully.[/quote]

Why are you putting up with this? 
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