Bipolar Disorder/bipolar bf

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Expert: - 11/27/2008


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Dear Ivan,I'm struggling really hard to understand someone dear to me,someone i care deeply about..i really need to is someone who suffers from bipolar capable of love?affection?its killing me,i think its me...pls help,,how do i reach him emotionally???he has told me he loves me but never is emotionally affectionate etc..i need ur help before i crack up...


thank you/

regards


AC

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Hi Carmen . . .

Bipolar disorder does not define everything asbout a person. Some people with bipolar disorder are affectionate others are emotionally frozen and unavailable. Emotionality is often totally shut down when people are depressed, but even when hypomanic some people with bipolar disorder are emotionally unavailable. This is often because of some other disorder such as obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.

Unfortunately I cannot give you any advice that will help you reach the man you love.

Best regards . . .

Ivan
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Ivan Goldberg, M.D.

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I am a psychiatrist/psychopharmacologist with many years of expereince in treating individuals with depressions, manic-depression (Bipolar Disorder), other mood disorders,. I am especially interested in the psychopharmacologic treatment of individuals with so called "treatment-resistant" syndromes.

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I have been on the staff of the National Institute of Mental Health, Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. I am currently in full-time private practice in New York City.

A.B. Johns Hopkins University
M.D. N.Y.U. College of Medicine

I am the creator of Depression Central:http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.html

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