My friend Jim is 16 years old and works every week. He pays for his own gas and pretty much pays for everything else except car insurance etc. All around he seems like a pretty normal person. I have another friend who is also 16, Jake, and we all like to hang out together as a group (we are all 16). We usually joke about really strange and sometimes even homosexual things, but all around are pretty humorous in general. But sometimes Jim has these "mood swings". Like we would be joking and he would expect me to respond and make me look stupid (because the joke relates to me). When I don't respond he gets really pissed. I don't have a job, I fork money from my parents for food or whatever we do when I'm with my buds. I don't have my license (but I could, I'm just too lazy to go take a written test at the BMV) nor do I have my own car. I guess I'm what you call a "late bloomer". Anyways my friend Jim would almost constantly remind me that I don't have a job and that I don't have a car. He would say, "At least I have a car." and "At least I have a job." Most of all he attacks me personally. I am very self-concious about the way my body looks. One time we went swimming and I didn't even get in the water or even take my shirt off. That is just how I am. Jim constantly criticizes how I am and what I do and do not know about things. He knows a lot about cars and I don't. I admit that to him. He is a car person. But I am a gun person. He always has to know more about guns than me, or anything in general. It's like he always has to be right. He criticizes me, judges me, and says things to my face that offend me and hurt me. Sometimes he is okay though. Normal. But he changes moods literally in under 10 seconds about the littlest things. My friend Jake notices it too and we think he may have something wrong. I never retaliate back whenever he says hurtful things to me. Because I care about our friendship and I respect him. I don't point out his problems to his face. So could he be bipolar? Or is he just not a good friend?
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