What’s going on?
Hello everyone, I really need some advice. My partner is going through something that I don’t know if it’s mania or something else, but it seems to have progressively gotten worse over the last several days.
It started more subtly with them talking about not sleeping, feeling exhausted, sad, or “like a top spun up.” They travel for work, and during this last trip they were texting strange back-to-back messages that didn’t make sense, talking oddly, and acting unlike themselves. They also left unusually late and were saying things like “everything happens for a reason.”
After coming home, things escalated. They started buying tons of new clothes, shoes, cologne, instruments, and random things. They’ve been spray painting things, breaking objects, leaving weird items around, and their condo is now a complete mess. They’re drinking heavily, smoking nicotine again after years, and constantly drinking Monster/Red Bull. They also quit their job, drive either aggressively or extremely slow, and have become very paranoid and suspicious, especially toward me.
They suddenly told me we need to break up and moved all my belongings into another room. What’s confusing is that sometimes they sound somewhat normal and grounded, but other times they say things that make no sense at all. They’re tense, angry, and feel like a completely different person. I honestly don’t recognize them right now and I’m really worried.
Has anyone experienced something similar or have advice on what this could be? Sorry if this is all over the place, it’s been a very overwhelming few days.