So, looking into this a bit further, it seems that bipolar is the illness that seems to trigger the hypersexuality and infidelity. So much so that “sexual indiscretions” is a marker of bipolar illness that it is included in the DSM-IV’s diagnostic criteria.
This was an interesting read: Bipolar Infidelity: Discover Causes, Cures and Scary Statistics | Bipolar Lives
People always like to have something to blame. Especially an illness…even more so a supposedly incurable one such as mental health… merely just an excuse to avoid responsibility and consequence for their actions.
People need to take responsibility for there actions.
That is interesting because I am bi polar and I suffer from depression. He wanted to do it so much that I started to hate having intercourse, he wouldn’t let me have a break, wants it everyday and then if I complied he wants to go at least an hour and will try to go for seconds! My menstrual doesn’t even stop him. So at first that was the reason for cheating, I wasn’t giving him enough, and he has a huge problem with sexual rejection, not just with me, the other women have told me that he gets upset if he can’t have any. I believe that is why he won’t take the meds, they prescribed him 3 heavy hitters, because they have the sexual side effects.
I believe this to be true. He has come to me many times asking me to support him and help him through therapy getting help with this issue of his. He also thinks he is bi polar, but I am pretty sure he is just paranoid sz and quite the douche / a)(^^^%(*P& that you guys have described him to be. It’s a crutch that he pulls out to keep me around. He has no problem working, he has to work at school courses but he is getting an associates degree, loves technology, saves all his money and can manage to be on his own. Says he feels desensitized since his mother died and that he has not grieved for her, but from what I have read a lot of people with the disease have that issue of being emotionless sometimes. He blamed it on my family a couple times, the depend on me too much and they are tethered and too needy and he doesn’t have to deal with that (if you marry the girl you marry her family) but he never had a problem practically living me with before we got a place together where they fed him, and allowed him to be there as a family member. I paid all the bills in a 4 bedroom house taking care of my mother, grandmother, sister, and son and he was there like he lived there.
Sz dsnt cause ppl to cheat.
What you just described sounds an awful lot like sexual abuse. If your partner ever manipulates or pushes you to have sex that you’re not 100% willing to have, that is abusive. Get away as soon as you can.
I was in a relationship like that, and I thought it was normal because I had never dated a boy before. But it is totally true that most guys don’t even want to have sex unless their partner is enthusiastic about it.
Yes, what you’re describing is definitely not a symptom of schizophrenia, but he sounds abusive. My advice, and many others here, is to get out of that relationship as fast as you can.
He has no psychosis, no delusions, no paranoia, no social withdrawal, no avolition. He has no symptoms of sz at all. His sexuality is abusive, he is more if a sociopath than anything else. He preys on you more than anyone else because you are most vulnerable. He doesn’t need you. He’s manipulating you. He has probably never been prescribed any meds in his life. It’s just a line to reel you in. Sneak away, protect yourself and your son, and be prepared to call the police when he realizes you mean it.
There is no point, continuing. You may love him but I would give the chance of a successful marriage a zero. Find someone who loves you and will be reliable with future children.
No, Sz doesn’t cause sex addictive behavior, those are separate.