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Living with DH and bipolar! ( long)

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diet7up · 14/08/2013 09:14

My husband was diagnosed with bipolar exactly a year ago, things haven?t been great since
He was diagnosed the same day our DS was born !
Anyway since then he?s been up and down as expected, we don?t live in the UK, we live in a strict Muslim country!
The past few weeks a lot has happened, he rides a motor bike even though he is not very good and has had 2 serious accidents, yesterday he got out of hospital from his 2nd accident.
We are on the verge of ending our marriage he keeps saying he wants to be a free spirit. We also have a DD age 3.
He told me a couple of weeks ago he has not bonded with our son and doesn?t really give a s**t about him but he loves our daughter and will never let me take her away from him.
He is addicted to his meds, mainly xanax, he is seeing 2-3 different doctors to get them, I don?t know how many he is taking but it?s a lot,
He went crazy the other night discharged himself from hospital in the middle of the night, i found him walking the streets around 4am looking for a pharmacy with a swollen face has he had been in a fight with someone?
Where we live health care is a business, Drs get commission for righting prescriptions so they don?t always have the best interest of the patient its all about money!
I want to help him, i want him to get better but i don?t know what to do, he puts me down, nothing is every good enough, i don?t know what mood he?s going to be in and i know he is very depressed !
I think he is having a mental break down.
He has no family due to a bad childhood and refuses to talk to anyone about the issues he has.
Im at breaking point and don?t know what to do !

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jemjelly · 14/08/2013 13:57

I don't know what to suggest but just wanted to say I understand how you feel.

My DH has OCD and the whole situation is very hard and sometimes seems impossible, I often look at other peoples relationships and think why does everything have to be so hard for us.

Is your DH like this all the time? What are his prospects of improving?

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