Tips for dating someone with bi-polar disorder
When dating someone with bi-polar, it is important to understand the cycle of moods. So, expect highs and lows in your marriage or relationship. In general, practice self-care to make sure you don’t get drained. For example, have good, nutritious meals, and exercise regularly, and see a therapist in CT. Seek a bi-polar disorder therapist in Niantic, Connecticut to help you understand your partner. Overall, your partner will have very low moods. And, they may feel depressed to the point where they seem disinterested in your relationship.
Does your partner may have high moments and have very good-good times? And, low, depressing, sad moments?
For one, bi-polar disorder symptoms can be very simular to trauma symptoms. Really, there are extreme ups and downs in emotions. One moment, there is sadness, the next, anger, or excitement. Trauma and PTSD is often the cause of bi-polar disorder. Secondly, trauma therapy and working with Katie Ziskind, trauma specialist, can help you learn skills to healing from trauma. Possibly, your partner struggles with addiction or alcohol issues too. Therefore, know that there are up and lows with loving someone with bi-polar disorder. And, these can be very hectic and chaotic for you as a spouse. So, therapy weekly can be great self-care and a safe place to unload stress. Lastly, if you are looking for a bi-polar disorder therapist in Niantic, Connecticut, call Wisdom Within Counseling. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a complementary phone consultation to work with a bi-polar disorder and trauma specialist in CT.
Also, find a couples therapist in your local area who you can meet with weekly, who understand bi-polar disorder, and trauma.
Often, the root of bi-polar disorder is trauma or PTSD, so having a trauma therapists can help a lot. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can work with bi-polar disorder therapist. And, in East Lyme, Connecticut, there are not many trauma and bi-polar disorder specialists. Wisdom Within Counseling is the only office with 50 miles offering holistic therapies. Often, when working with a bi-polar and trauma counselor, you can learn to heal after trauma. Because of the trauma, people with bi-polar disorder are more impulsive and tend towards drug and alcohol addictions.
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Because of trauma, people with bi-polar disorder tend to choose negative coping mechanisms.
For instance, self-harm, cutting, eating disorders, and addiction are issues for people with bi-polar disorder. Sometimes, childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, and verbal abuse can cause bi-polar disorder. So, if your partner is using drugs or alcohol, seeing a bi-polar disorder therapist in Niantic, Connecticut can help teach healthier coping skills. Instead of negative coping skills, you and your spouse can learn to connect. Overall, at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, CT, therapy involves a mixture of couples therapy sessions as well as individual sessions. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation with a holistic bi-polar disorder therapist in Niantic, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling.
How can yoga in counseling help people looking for a bi-polar disorder therapist in Southeastern Connecticut?
Also, daily yoga has been shown to significantly improve the health and mental stability. And, this is essential in people with bi-polar disorder. Breathing, doing poses, and the mental focus help people with bi-polar disorder feel stable. So, see if you and your partner can goto a yoga class daily in the morning. Or, on a minimum, do weekly yoga together, to promote positive coping skills for negative emotions. Going out drinking or using drugs can be very negative for people with bi-polar disorder and trauma. Call/text 860-451-9364 to learn more about how the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut help you or you loved one learn skills to confidently manage bi-polar disorder.
How can self-care help you if you have bi-polar disorder or are dating someone with bi-polar disorder?
First, self-care can be simple like going to a local yoga class after your long day at work. Or, self-care can be the practice of mindful eating, cooking real foods, and enjoying the taste of every bite. Self-care is a way of living that helps you feel refreshed even when you are giving energy to work, family, children, and your job. And, when you live with someone who has bi-polar, self-care can help you feel calm, relaxed, and grounded. Or, if you live with bi-polar, self-care is stabilizing, a healthy routine, and healing. Also, self-care is not selfish.
Self-care allows you to refuel and refill your energetic bucket to feel more content and peaceful with life as it is.
Self-care is about self-love, self-acceptance, and nurturing your self. As well, self-care helps you love your parter, flaws and all. For some, therapy and meeting weekly in counseling, is a great form of self-care! Self-care can help you return to parenting refreshed too. Call/text 860-451-9364 for help with bi-polar disorder or to get your loved one professional help with their bi-polar disorder.
How do you end a relationship with someone who has bi-polar disorder?
For some, the highs and lows are too much. And, the emotional instability and chaos is too unstable. Also, if your partner or spouse will not get help or see a bi-polar disorder therapist, you may feel like quitting. Before you do, meet with one of our bi-polar and trauma specialists in Niantic, Connecticut, before you choose to break up. Because the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with PTSD and trauma, they help you learn skills to holistically manage the symptoms of bi-polar disorder. So, if you have not tried couples therapy, call us 860-451-9364.
Before breaking up, the marital and family therapist team at Wisdom Within Counseling recommends consistently working with a bi-polar disorder therapist in Niantic, Connecticut.
Right now, you may feel frustration and exhaustion. Therefore, at Wisdom Within Counseling, we offer counseling for yourself as well. Call/text 860-451-9364 to learn more about how the team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut help you or you loved one, in couples therapy, learn skills to confidently manage bi-polar disorder. To note, if your are going to break up with someone, you really are best doing it in person. Call/text 860-451-9364 for a phone consultation for holistic bi-polar counseling.
