Mixed episode and I think I just blew up one of my only friendships
TLDR:/ may have lost a friendship due to political argument handled badly due to hypomania. What should I do?
I'm currently struggling through a mixed episode. My GP and psychiatrist are working on my med cocktail. I'm keeping it together just enough that no one (other than my partner) has noticed.
Anyway, one of my very few friends has got involved with a local protest movement - it's well meaning, but the organisers are spreading information that is blatantly false (and I'm actually in a position to know).
And it's really really bugged me.
When my friend started posting stuff about the cause on their own page, I simply didn't respond. No dramas, it's on their own page, whatever.
Unfortunately, they hijacked a public comment thread with such outrageous claims that I felt I couldn't let it pass, and I responded publicly, pointing out how incorrect they were. Possibly not the best approach, but I'm finding myself increasingly irritable and angry and I admit I wasn't really thinking straight.
We then had a very long exchange over messenger, in which they raised points that I immediately demolished because they were so fanciful. Their main response then was to question how I could be so 'unethical' as to not support their cause.
Thing is, I don't actually care that much either way, I was just so outraged by well-meaning falsehoods shated by my friend,and the outright lies being peddled by organisers.
I later reached out with something innocuous and amusing, but I've got a feeling my friend won't see past what they onsider a major character flaw in me (politically/ethically) - or the fact I called them out publicly.
They know I'm bipolar, but they don't understand it, because they compare me to someone they know with bp1.
So I can't explain the mixed episode because they just don't get it (and it just sounds like an excuse) and I still don't want to abandon my position (that I object to the lies/falsehoods).
I've lost many friendships over the last 25 or more years due to this horrible condition, I don't want to lose one of the very few left.
Has anyone else lost friendships/relationships (or retrieved them) from political exchanges while hypomanic?