# Bipolar Disorder Turned My Husband Into Someone I Didn't Recognize

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Podcast: [Stories Of Hope With Tzipora Grodko](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stories-of-hope-with-tzipora-grodko-6973599)
Published: 2026-05-31T23:30:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this week's episode of Stories of Hope, Ariel and Koby Gold sit down for one of the most courageous and important conversations we've ever had on this podcast. Koby opens up about his lifelong struggle with anxiety and depression, the childhood isolation that shaped him, and the terrifying manic episode that landed him in a closed psychiatric ward in Israel, while his wife Ariel was home alone with a three-week-old baby. From the first signs of hypomania during a family trip to California, to the sleepless nights where Koby genuinely believed he was Moshiach, this episode holds nothing back about what bipolar disorder really looks like inside a marriage. But this episode is so much more than a mental health story. It's a story about a wife who chose to stay, a husband who chose to fight, and a couple who discovered that you don't get over the hardest things in life, you get through them, together. Ariel and Koby speak honestly about the loneliness of mental illness, the danger of stopping your medication when you start feeling better, the role of faith in the darkest moments, and what it actually takes to rebuild after something that shakes everything. If you or someone you love has ever felt alone in their struggle, this episode will make you feel seen. This episode was brought to you in part by: ► PZ Deals Download The PZ Deals App and Never Pay Full Price Again https://app.pz.deals/install/soh ______________ ► Colel Chabad Pushka App The easiest way to give Tzedaka. https://pushkapp.cc/soh ______________ ► Resunize Shidduch resumes shouldn't live in random screenshots, notebooks, and lost scraps of paper. Resunize keeps every resume, note, and piece of feedback organized in one clean place. https://resunize.com/mm

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