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

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May 31, 2026 · 57 min · Episode 93

About this episode

Ariel and Koby Gold discuss Koby's struggle with bipolar disorder and its impact on their marriage.

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…

People in this episode

Guests: Ariel Gold, Koby Gold

Topics covered

bipolar disorder
mental health
marriage
faith
anxiety
depression

Keywords

bipolar disorder
mental health
marriage
anxiety
depression
faith
medication

Mentioned in this episode

Places: California, Israel