Background info is, my partner and I have been together for 13 years and have a 10 year old daughter. He has always struggled with his mental health and there have been many obstacles along the way. I am quite grounded and have, alongside his family, supported him through all of these. Most recently, he walked out of his job and had a full scale mental health crisis, leaving all of the responsibilities of home to move back with his mum for two months. There was drug use and alcohol abuse to overcome. His mum paid off all of the £15k debt he had accumulated and put him through private therapy and an ADHD diagnosis (still in process) costing absolute thousands. This put a massive strain on our relationship but I love
him and once again fell into the trap that this would be the “big turn around.” He did really well and even started a new job which he was thriving. He became obsessed with the gym and losing weight which I thought was a really good outlet for him. This week, he started acting really strange and out of character. Like he was so tired he was slurring his words and falling asleep mid sentence, he couldn’t remember even calling me. He was acting strangely around a rucksack so when he was downstairs I looked through it and found 3
different types of anabolic steroid. One which he injects and two oral pills. I just feel as though it is one thing after another and I hit my capacity and told him we were through. He said it’s ridiculous and they’re not a recreational drug etc but I don’t think he is ever going to change and I am just exhausted. Do you think I overreacted?