boyfriend bi-polar?

[whitecat78]

    I think my anxiety/depression problem stems around my relationship with my boyfriend.  I am starting to think he is bi-polar.  He verbally abuses me on a regular basis.  He makes me feel so low, I cry for a couple days after a fight. He is successful, intelligent, eccentric and makes a lot of money.  He has called me a idiot, loser, crazy and that I have to "earn his respect" whenever I try and defend myself he gets in this rage and the insults start.  Here is a example of a argument.... we recently got a new Mainecoon kitten, I was trying to get him to look at him play, my boyfriend roles his eyes says he is "too busy" because he is getting ready for Burning Man may I add  "at the last minute", then I get upset and confront him about it, then he goes into this rampant rage. He grabs my arm so hard it made a bruise and then he knocks his knuckles on my head.  He blames me for everything, if something goes wrong its my fault. May I add I have never insulted him once. Later when he calms down he seems to regret what he did and he starts being very nice.  He is also very hyper sexual, I am started to think he is just using me as a object. He also wants to be high on some kind of drug all the time.
    I am just so confused, I hate living at home with my parents, I don't meet or connect with people easily, the only kind of people I seem to connect with are ones with mental or emotional problems, its like I would rather be abused by my boyfriend than move back home and be stuck in my room alone.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

It's possible like I said.  Only a psychiatrist would be able to figure it all out though.

[whitecat78]

thanks for the response, well i just meant he gets very irritable, like he is in a agitated mania state, i have to try not to say the wrong thing or he will snap.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Sounds like he definitely has anger management issues.  It could be related to bipolar disorder but would probably take more symptoms than you listed to be considered bipolar disorder because abuse isn't part of the criteria for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.