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Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective
    #14274090 - 04/11/11 06:29 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

So this guy, who has been a friend of my brother and I, offered to let me room at his house for a reasonable price.

The house is awesome, the neighborhood is even more awesome, and the price is a steal.

The only problem is the guy has an extreme case of bi-polar, to the point where I would argue that he is schizo-affective.
When he is unmedicated, he becomes extremely manic, with episodes of intense depression and anger. On top of that, he has delusions of grandeur, to an extreme. He becomes convinced that two unrelated occurrences that are coincidental HAVE to have some true purpose/meaning.
He takes lithium, and his medicine doesn't seem to remain in his system over long periods, so he can become unstable within a few days time or less.

My main concerns is that I have a hobby of hoarding drugs. I'm worried about living somewhere with someone who is unstable. He has guns, he gets angry, and doesn't think 100% clearly when he is having an episode. I'm worried the cops could get called, and that it could bring attention to me. I don't want them finding my drugs basically.

On that same note, I have personally never encountered a problem with the guy. I'm an extremely stable person, and also an empath, so when he is intensely emotional I am capable of taking him 100% serious, and help him out of the place that he is in.
I feel like I could actually help him in the long run. Remind him when he is becoming erratic to take his medicine (which I do), and just being a calming presence around him that could possibly calm him in return.

There will also be another close friend of mine who is moving in. This other friend is someone who I would also consider a very stable person.

And on my last note:
If it came down to it, I could hide all of my "serious" drug stash in a ridiculous location that I create myself so that NO ONE is capable of locating it.
That would only be a reassurance in case shit did hit the fan, I wouldn't have to be worried about the cops finding anything more than a few pipes and some nugs.


So what are your guys thoughts? Have any of you lived with someone who is on the extreme end of the spectrum for bipolar?
I'm sure some of you on here ARE bipolar, so I'd also be interested to hear your thoughts as well.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Acaterpillar] * 1
    #14274165 - 04/11/11 06:44 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Personally, i wouldn't do it.:shrug:


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: thoughts]
    #14274172 - 04/11/11 06:46 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Personally, i wouldn't do it.:shrug:




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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: The_Ghost]
    #14274177 - 04/11/11 06:46 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Personally, i wouldn't do it.:shrug:







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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Acaterpillar]
    #14274187 - 04/11/11 06:48 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Get him really stoned.
Roommates in general suck though. Schizoaffective or not. What's the alternative?


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Samuel L Jackson]
    #14274194 - 04/11/11 06:48 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I think it'll be fine. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and I am highly functioning most of the time. My diagnosis is bullshit.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: EternalCowabunga]
    #14274200 - 04/11/11 06:49 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

So was mine. They also diagnosed me schizoaffective. :whatever:
If I had it their way I'd be on lithium and all that mind-bending shit too.
Pretty much everyone is bat shit crazy if you live with them for long enough.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Shroomism]
    #14274233 - 04/11/11 06:55 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Get him really stoned.
Roommates in general suck though. Schizoaffective or not. What's the alternative?



He already smokes weed, and is cool with my drug hobby.

The alternative is to move into a shitty studio apartment, in a scary neighborhood.
Or keep living at my parents house and feeling like a fucking mooch, which I'll probably keep doing for at least a few more months, because I still need to save up to buy some equipment before my money gets tied down.

*Edit: Seems like most of you are against the idea. I need to re-emphasize:
"The house is awesome, the neighborhood is even more awesome, and the price is a steal."

The neighborhood is upper-middle class, with a pool and room for me to have a garden, along with room to hold all my music equipment.
I'd only be paying $400-$600, when it would usually cost me $800+ to stay somewhere of the same quality.

So the ONLY reason I'm iffy about moving is because the guy is unstable.
but the offer to move in is such a sweet deal, I'm very seriously considering it.
If I hadn't received this offer I would of been looking at some shoddy places.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Shroomism]
    #14274235 - 04/11/11 06:55 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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I think it'll be fine. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and I am highly functioning most of the time. My diagnosis is bullshit.



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So was mine. They also diagnosed me schizoaffective. :whatever:
If I had it their way I'd be on lithium and all that mind-bending shit too.
Pretty much everyone is bat shit crazy if you live with them for long enough.



Its not so much the schizophrenia part that would concern me, but the mixture of schizophrenia, extreme delusions of grandeur, manic episodes of anger, and GUNS.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: The_Ghost]
    #14274268 - 04/11/11 06:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

yep, you need to worry about how violent this roomate is. does he fight people alot
hit chicks, whatever.. cause then you could be headin for trouble.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: The_Ghost]
    #14274284 - 04/11/11 07:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

He's not that aggressive. He's the kind of guy who would beat the shit out of someone for hitting a girl.
He's generally only violent when it's called for.

I'm more worried about him being manic with delusions of grandeur. I don't think he would ever attack me. I usually know how to handle aggressive people to avoid conflict.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Acaterpillar]
    #14274297 - 04/11/11 07:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Well if you got another good stable friend moving in then you two could probably tie the fucker down if it comes down to it :lol:


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Acaterpillar]
    #14274299 - 04/11/11 07:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

i dunno man, i hate having a roommate who is a "normal" person so i couldnt imagine living with someone who has delusions of grandeur. or is bipolar. or aggressive.

have you ever had a roommate before? just curious


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: The_Ghost]
    #14274349 - 04/11/11 07:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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i dunno man, i hate having a roommate who is a "normal" person so i couldnt imagine living with someone who has delusions of grandeur. or is bipolar. or aggressive.

have you ever had a roommate before? just curious



Yes I have, and it was in a tiny dorm room. It did annoy me, but he was generally a clean person so I didn't mind toooo terribly much.
The worst part was that every day I had to sit and listen to him bitch his mom out over the phone about how much he hated the place, and that it was all her fault :bored:

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Well if you got another good stable friend moving in then you two could probably tie the fucker down if it comes down to it :lol:



The ironic thing about that is we actually wouldn't be able to :lol:
The guy is 350lb's 6'5". He used to be an all state wrestler in HS, and was starting linebacker for Southern Methodist University.

So if shit DID get out of hand, we would have to call some people for help.

I'm not worried about him getting aggressive with me. I'd be more worried about him getting aggressive with other people.

However, I also can't help but have the logic that he is a grown man who can take care of himself.
He has gotten this far in life without ever being hospitalized, or arrested, so I can't imagine shit could get TOO much worse for him in the coming 6-12 months. :shrug:


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Acaterpillar]
    #14274384 - 04/11/11 07:22 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Ya he could be alright. Or there could be some fight club shit brewing and you become the last push that sends him into a massive rampage of mayhem and devastation. No way we can really know. :shrug:


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Acaterpillar]
    #14274390 - 04/11/11 07:25 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Put your drugs in a safe. And be careful with this guy - a schizo family friend of mine once cut his friend and roommate's arm off with a machete during an episode. They let him out after about a year in a mental institution though :lol:

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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: user1837483975]
    #14274400 - 04/11/11 07:26 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Put your drugs in a safe. And be careful with this guy - a schizo family friend of mine once cut his friend and roommate's arm off with a machete during an episode. They let him out after about a year in a mental institution though :lol:



Awesome.  :braindamage:


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: The_Ghost]
    #14274442 - 04/11/11 07:38 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I don't think he has been diagnosed schizoaffective, I believe he's just been medically diagnosed as severe bipolar, but from personally seeing his episodes, I think it's a little more than that.
Labels are pretty useless though, when you're talking specifics about a persons mental "disorder".

*Edit: If my drugs are in a safe, and the cops find weed in the house, could they confiscate my safe as evidence, or at have probable cause to search it? That's my main worry, is that cops will come to the house for some other reason. It's a likely possibility that pipes and bongs could be sitting out in viewable sight. It's also likely that we'll be having occasional parties at the house. 

That's why I'd probably create an actual place that would not exist unless otherwise, like a cutout in something. Then I'd put my safe in there.


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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: Acaterpillar]
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Re: Moving in with a bi-polar/schizoaffective [Re: The_Ghost]
    #14274449 - 04/11/11 07:39 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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