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One of the hardest part of navigating this newfound bipolar diagnosis is figuring out the difference between a good mood or a hypo-manic episode. Isn’t that the point? To be happy and stable? Yet here I am, months into this diagnosis and treatment, and I’m almost scared to be happy; at least without a tinge of hypo-manic anxiety.

I am no doctor and struggled with human biology in community college, so take this as you will. It is my understanding that women come with this hormone thingy called Oxycontin, also dubbed somewhere as the “cuddle hormone,” which causes a woman to feel “deeply infatuated” (for lack of a better word with my shrewd vocabulary) with the the person she has sex with. Yes ladies, that feeling of “maybe love?” is really biological.

Now (again, not a doctor. you have been warned.), add this dumb hormone with a couple of chemical mechanisms in place that literally scream impulsivity, how could one not feel…elated? Blissful? Hypomanic…?

I have no advice here, as I am riding this bipolar journey along with you, but I can only think the best course of action in dating while bipolar is to take it slow…Right? Right.

At least that’s what I’m going to try.

Does anyone else have any helpful advice for sex and dating with bipolar?