People who have Bipolar Disorder often have a hard time sleeping.It's not unusual for someone unmedicated with this disorder to be up for two or three days straight because their mind and body simply won't let them sleep.

The lives of those suffering from it are hugely impacted by it.Haltzman is clinical assistant professor in the Brown University department of psychiatry and human behavior.He's also medical director of NRI Community Services in Woonsocket, R. and author of The Secrets of Happily Married Men and The Secrets of Happily Married Women.Instead, things he usually enjoyed just served as reminders to him of how terrible he felt.No matter what you do, you can never make another person happy, and while that’s hard to accept, it’s not personal.When Jim Mc Nulty, 58, of Burrillville, Rhode Island, got married in the 1970s, everything seemed fine at first."It was an absolutely normal courtship," he recalls. During his "up" or hypomanic states, he would spend huge sums of money he didn't have.Ending any relationship is difficult, and deciding to end a relationship because of a person’s mental condition only complicates things further. While treatments for bipolar disorder can help control the condition, it will be a constant battle throughout his or her life. Michael Brodsky, medical director of Bridges to Recovery—a crisis stabilization center with several locations in California—said while people with bipolar disorder are known to be creative, charismatic, energetic, and inspirational, they can also be unpredictable, promiscuous, inattentive, and self-focused.Some of these qualities make it hard on a relationship, so a person must weigh whether he or she wants stability over excitement, he said. Brodsky said there’s no perfect time to end a relationship with someone who is bipolar.When you first meet someone, you put your best foot forward so your prospective love interest sees your good points before your faults come out.Once things become comfortable, your partner discloses his or her bipolar disorder.Sometimes the best support you can offer is just being there.By the end of our relationship, I’d learned to ask him if there was anything I could do for him. For a while, I was offended because I felt like as his partner, I should be able to fix things.The trademark of Bipolar Disorder is a major mood imbalance.The person may go from depressed to a manic state, or may experience other shifts in mood that affect the person's ability to function.