Bipolar mood disorder is a chronic brain disease characterized by recurrent periods of depressive, manic or mixed illness, with intervening asymptomatic periods. It is divided into IDDB-I and IDDB-II. The only difference between them is whether the person experiences a full manic episode or not. If a person experiences a full manic episode at least once, he or she is diagnosed with IDDD-I.
During the manic period, the person experiences a sudden increase and becomes extremely cheerful, happy and optimistic. There are some symptoms of the manic episode. These symptoms may cause people to experience problems in their social, family, work or school lives. We can list the symptoms of someone in a manic episode as follows: Inattention, inarticulateness, overconfidence, flight of thoughts, increased activity, sleep disorders, excessive talking. How can these symptoms affect people's romantic relationships?
Distraction, which can also be referred to as distractibility, is interpreted as a person's ability to be easily attracted to an unimportant or irrelevant stimulus. People who are easily distracted may miss many important events or details in their relationships, thus making the other party feel as if they do not care. According to studies, forgetting or skipping important details in the relationship has been seen as a possibility of damaging a person's confidence.
According to the study conducted by Bem and McConnell (1970), overconfidence that people have in themselves is perceived as overconfidence in interpersonal romantic relationships and is counterproductive. It can also appear as humiliating the other party and feeling superior to oneself. Accordingly, if people humiliate and belittle the other party due to their excessive self-confidence during the manic period and act with inflated self-confidence, the relationship may deteriorate at this point.
Many thoughts may run through the minds of people with IDDD at once or quickly. Friendship and romantic relationships may be damaged in people with wandering thoughts because they cannot remain fixed on one subject and jump from one subject to another (Akiskal et al., 2000). They may not be able to talk about a subject for a long time because one word evokes associations with another. Naturally, their relationships may be damaged.
These people are also They increase in their daily activities. During the manic period, people may quit their current job without thinking to do a completely different activity. In other words, they make very impulsive decisions (Ball et al., 1993). In this case, they may change or quit their job without thinking. It can be said that the likelihood of them doing things they may regret increases. Thus, the person with whom he is romantically involved may think that he does not want to be with such an indecisive and impulsive person, seeing him here and there, seeing that he cannot sit still. However, in this good way, it can also contribute to the relationship by doing different activities with the person with whom it is in a romantic relationship.
Excessive talking may not be seen as a popular feature by society, because people who talk a lot generally always talk about themselves and do not let the other party talk or listen (Markus et al., 1985). Talking too much is considered a symptom of a manic episode. If these people always talk about themselves and their own experiences and feelings while sitting with the person in their romantic relationship, a one-sided sharing will be made. Therefore, this may not always be welcomed by the person he is in a relationship with. In a romantic relationship, people should both talk and listen. However, if only one party's life is discussed, this may cause problems in the relationship.
Having too much energy can also cause sleep disorders. Abdülkadiroğlu et al. According to the study conducted by (1997), many types of sleep problems were examined and factors such as trauma, active life, and irregular nutrition attracted attention in these people. A person with a sleep disorder may have trouble managing his life temporally and may begin to experience day as night and night as day. This can again be considered as one of the factors that make it difficult for people to adapt to each other and do activities together in romantic relationships.
Finally, looking at all the symptoms we have mentioned, we can say that the things people experience during the manic period are more likely to negatively affect their romantic relationship. Living a life at such extremes can be difficult for the person with whom they have a romantic relationship to get used to this order or even disorder. In general, for someone with bipolar, both manic and The depressive episode has its own challenges. These difficulties can negatively impact their life, family, friends, work and romantic relationships. However, if the person with whom he/she is in a romantic relationship is aware of these and shows the necessary behaviors and supports the person to live more regularly, we cannot say that he/she will never be able to overcome the problems.
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