My boyfriend is bipolar and was previously medicated, but things have taken increasingly worse turns over the last few months.
We’re both 22, I just graduated college and I’m getting ready to apply to medical school. When we started dating a little over a year ago, he was working on his engineering degree. He had a full ride to school with a stipend, but two semesters were forfeited while he was admitted to an inpatient facility. Since his stipend expired in July, he’s had to pay for classes and he can only take one or two at a time.
Around 4 months ago, he stopped taking ALL of his medication and didn’t tell anyone until several weeks later. He’s been fired from two jobs in less than five months, and now he’s talking about dropping out of school to build an AI model. During his last big episode in October, he said he was going to drop out and pursue professional video gaming, which I am not supportive of and he knows that, but he said he realized how crazy it sounded when he wasn’t manic anymore.
Now, he has no job, no money, no experience in tech other than coding a little bit as a hobby, but now wants to create this model. He swears up and down he’ll make $10k before the fall, and he’s not even coding anything himself, he’s making AI code AI.
Like I mentioned, I have massive goals for myself and we got into a pretty big fight about it last night. He was okay off of his meds at first, but with every little episode he gets meaner, tells me I’m crazy for not supporting “what he was made to do”. He doesn’t believe he’s manic, he just thinks that he’s let the mask down and is showing the real him. I just know what I’ve seen prior.
He was such a good person when we started dating, but now, to put it plainly, he’s kind of a bum. I’m conflicted on what the hell I should do here, because I refuse to be a doctor with a loser for a husband.
Chicken caesar wrap🥳
EDIT TO ADD!!!
About 15 after my original post, he actually ended things. Apparently, I’m delusional for not supporting this and I’ll regret it when he’s rich. Anyway, wish me luck as I begin writing my primary application for medical school!