Dr. Sober Companion

My bipolar boyfriend of almost 8months has been lying to me our entire relationship about snorting ritalin/concerta. He finally came out of denial and admitted to have been abusing it for the past year. He is in a crisis center to restabalize his bipolar meds and is getting rehab help as well. He says he wants to get better. I realize an addict will always be an addict.. it’s a day to day thing. Does he have hope to get better? He says he wants to have a future with me, but I tell him it’s me or the drug. The abuse just makes his bipolar worse and he has a history of drug abuse. I just worry that he will constantly relapse and just mirror his past. Or is it possible for him to actually break the cycle?

There is an equidistant relationship between addiction and pathological lying that has been psychologically substantiated. I would first like to remark that his admittance into a rehabilitation facility is a promising start and that hopefully he will not relapse and continue progressing in his treatment agendas. Manic depressive patients can oft be more susceptible to narcotic abuse because of their mental instabilities so you giving him an ultimatum at a suspect and critical time might destabilize him further I would suggest you save your critiquing for when he is more solidified mentally. He can and will break this perpetual cycle via psychological counseling or therapy which should alleviate his disease by conditioning him psychologically and most importantly isolating himself further and further from this dependency on narcotics by focusing and orienting himself on positive things. It can be an exhaustive process but rehabilitation depends upon that individuals perspicacity and veracity and you giving him the encouragement he needs will help to increase his odds of success. I wish you the best of luck and may god bless you both.

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