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jesse
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 Posted: 08/14/05 - 02:00 Post subject: spouses & medicated bipolar husband |
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I am going through very tough period of my life ... i am pregnant and my husband isn’t helping me much. He is medicated, since he is bipolar and is in loooong depression period. I understand him, but jesus, where is someone to understand me?
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candelario
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| Posted: 09/01/05 - 17:55 Post subject: |
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I understand you, because I have been there; I was also pregnant and my husband had the longest depression ever then. Both, you and your husband are in very tough period. I think he is afraid of fatherhood, being bipolar and father isn’t an easy task, trust me! I really do not know what to say, but he is bipolar and you must take his actions with some credit. I know it is hard, especially since you are pregnant, but I am praying for you!
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blackkat7970
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| Posted: 08/13/06 - 22:22 Post subject: Who do I turn to? |
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I am so lost right now. As I am typing this reply, my husband is sitting in a hospital on a 72 hour hold because he had an episode at a doctor's office on Friday and the doctor called the cops. I am not sure whether or not to be mad at him because for the longest time I have told him that he needs to think before he speaks and apparently he stuck his foot in his mouth and wound up in the hospital for 72 hours. What he does not remember is that this is the second time that this has happened.
Part of me is wondering how do I find the man that I fell in love with and the other part of me is considering ending my marriage. When we got married, he did not tell me that he was bipolar, I had to find out after I called my house one day and the cops answered saying that he reported himself because he was beating someone up for no reason.
I have sat here alone in my house for the last 2 days crying my eyes out wondering where to go from here. I have never felt so alone about this situation. I cannot talk to his mother because she barely knows how to deal with her son and I cannot talk to my mother because she does not need this grief 12 hours before she is scheduled to have open heart surgery. I feel that because he did not tell me about this in the beginning, he did not give me the chance to understand him and this illness.
I miss the man I fell in love with and I am trying desperately to hold on for better days ahead.
Please pray for me. |
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AmyJ
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| Posted: 03/18/07 - 16:32 Post subject: Bipolar husband |
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| I know somewhat how you are feeling, my husband was diagnosed as Bipolar a couple of months after our wedding. Since then it has been a daily battle, after deciding I was going to leave as I couldn't handle it anymore, I had a change of heart and stayed, got pregnant soon after and we now have a 14 month old daughter. I feel like I am stuck in a never-ending nightmare, up and down up and down, am again having thoughts that I should leave and be free of this negative fog around my head, but have feelings of guilt, fear, and am so unsure what to do. I feel alone and confused. I want to have another baby but don't know whether to stay in this situation and try having one or to cut my losses and hope to meet someone else without a mental illness! I have prayed and prayed and feel perhaps God wants me to live like this forever. |
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| Posted: 04/06/07 - 19:25 Post subject: reply |
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| Honey I just had another child with my husband (bipolar) and it ripping my marriage apart. He suddenly is manic and feels he is inadequate as both a husband and a father. Please think about your decision...you need to think of the child you already have. |
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MannM
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| Posted: 12/18/07 - 18:53 Post subject: Bipolar |
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I am new here ad was looking to see how alone I am now that I have to make a choice wehter to start taking Lithium for my recent diagnosis og=f Bipolarism. I was reading some stories of wifes being married to a man that is Bipiolar. I now can see some of the other half of my marriage now. I am a man with a history of depression, anxiety, panick and now Bipolar desease. I am going to pray for the wifes that
told some stories of the problem marriages due to the husband being Bipolar and hope that my wife never never decides to leave me for I will not want to live no more after if that were to happen to me. I am sure the husbands written about here will probably feel like I do so please ladies help your man out help him with this terrible illness that just crept up on me. I never knew I was ill with depression or what not. I am a Viet Nam Era vet and was involved in quite a few or alot of traumatic experiences thruout my threee year tour of duty. I thought it would go away gradually but instead got worst and worst as time went on. 1984 was the year the sky fell on me and have not stpped seeing doctors ever since.
Seems I'm getting away from the main subject but I have you all in my heart and will pray hard for your marriages.
Try to have a Merry Christmas and a Happy and better new year. Praying for you,
MannyM |
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