This is the Jocko Underground podcast, number 149.

Sitting here with Echo Charles, we have some interesting and important questions from the troopers today, opening up with a little bit of a doozy.

A little bit.

Let's rock and roll.

Okay.

All right.

First question.

I think for the other thing you do, the positive impact on my life for the last eight years is immeasurable.

I'm 32-year-old male and have been with my girlfriend for three years.

The first year and a half was amazing and I thought for sure she was the girl I was going to marry.

She's beautiful, driven, loyal, and we share so many important values.

I knew she had mental health issues in the past, including bipolar and borderline

personality disorder tendencies and self-harm. It seems she was keeping all of that under control

with regular therapy and coping mechanisms that she had learned. She was functional, successful,

sweet, intelligent, and loving person. Year and a half ago, she moved in with me and things

began to change. She stopped going

to therapy because life got quote unquote too busy. And she was doing so well. Her mental health

issues began resurfacing and have escalated ever since. She is often still all the things I fell in

love with her for. But now almost weekly, she has a mental breakdown where she is unhappy with everything

in her life, including me.

She sometimes screams at me, tells me she's done with me, and insults me.

I try to take ownership and attempt to do what I can to make her feel better.

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