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Depends.
I'm bipolar, but I've reached a point with my meds and therapy that it barely affects me at all. No one would know unless they literally saw me taking my medicine or I told them.
However, there were times in the past, for quite a while after I was first diagnosed (and of course before I was diagnosed) that it greatly affected all of my relationships. I did not accept it, didn't want to me on medication, and then refused to consistently take my medicine (so I would take it, be mostly stable for a while, and then stop taking it). It made everything, from my work life to my personal life feel like a roller coaster; and it definitely affected my friends and family to an extent, and it greatly affected my relationship.
So I would say it depends on how much the illness affects his life, and how much you are willing to allow it to affect yours. Kind of like deciding on whether you want to get involved with someone who has cancer. It is quite different to start something who is just getting into treatment for stage 3 carcinoma, and quite another with someone who has been in remission for 4 years.
But in the end, it is your decision to make. Would I be offended if someone didn't want to date me just because I had bipolar? Yes. But it's much nicer to hear that before you get deeply involved with someone.
You are right, you should not get involved with someone because you are afraid of how they will react if you decide not to date them. And if you do decide that you want to date him, move slow, and read up on bipolar disorder and what it means.
Actually now I see that this thread has been left for a while, so I wonder how this went. Update?
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