TW: suicide
Unfortunately there is a long background:
Me and my girlfriend have been dating a bit under a year, and things have been largely good outside of a few bad stretches where our mental health had been "acting up". I have bipolar disorder type II and was unmedicated for most of last year (not recommended!), and my mood swings became totally out of hand when a close family member of mine committed suicide. From the time of his death (later October) to around Christmas, I was massively depressed, often suicidal, sometimes delusional, not eating or sleeping nearly enough and emo
