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Don't know how to live with this or make it up to dh.

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Spaceboundeminem · 08/10/2014 09:47

I have bipolar 1. I have been admitted in the past but as they have closed so many psychiatric units this episode even though I was more ill they refused to admit me.

I am a childhood sexual abuse victim and as a result of that and bipolar when manic I tend to believe God is talking to me. When I hear him speak he says that I must sleep with rapists peadophilles and abusive men. That once I do my blood is poison and the man if he is unholy will be punished.

On my last episode God also instructed me to take drugs.

So I became a drug addict(clean now).

I told DH all of this before we got together as I wanted him to know what he was letting himself in for.

Over the last year I have slept with a dealer for drugs. I slept with a very abusive man often coming home covered in bruises. i also started sexting people and found someone I suspected of peadophilla and the voices told me to trick him into admitting a crime. He was also into Sado masochism and admitted he found kids attractive. Over skype in order to gain his trust I started acting out some of his Sado masochistic fantasies. Want to make it clear I never even spoke to him about my dc for fear.

Now that episode is over and I have told dh everything. I was crying my eyes out and vomiting. He just held me when I wanted him to scream and shout and walk away. But he said he is just grateful I wasn't seriously hurt physically.

I told crisis team everything while it was happening repeatedly and begged them to admit me but they wouldn't. It was a mixed episode so I had moments where I was depressed and could think a bit clearer.

These memories will haunt me forever and I am physically scared from the things I did for these abusive men some injuries required hospital treatment.

I love my dh very much but how can I ever make this right? How can I ever sleep again when everytime I do memories come flooding back.

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minidisco · 09/10/2014 19:40

I am so sorry that you have been so badly let down by mental health services, as none of this is your fault and please don't ever think that it is. Your husband sounds very supportive, I hope that you continue to be able to confide in him, and I really hope that you are able to access some decent long term mental health support in order to prevent any further episodes getting to this point.

Are you under CMHT? If you haven't already I think your consultant psychiatrist needs to be aware of how badly let down you have been.

minidisco · 09/10/2014 19:42

And could your psyc arrange for some long term therapy sessions as well as looking at your meds?

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