This is the third article in our conversation on sex and bipolar. As I mentioned in my two earlier pieces, there has been a lot written about sex and a lot written about bipolar, but virtually nothing on the two together. As I noted in my previous piece, sexual attraction guides us in our choice of a partner in a loving relationship. Even the chronically normal enter a “crazy for you” phase in boy-meets-girl, but how does bipolar affect this?
Let’s start with the proposition that brain...
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