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Old Sep 14, 2009, 08:57 AM
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My commonlaw husband had a bipolar, alcoholic ex that was also a drug abuser.
And since my diagnosis of ptsd, anxiety disorder, panic attacks and agoraphobia 6 months ago. I feel like our relationship has taken a subtle change.
I am not a big drinker, but do enjoy the occasional glass of wine.
(maybe 1 glass a week, sometimes none at all for a month or more)

Before my dx hubby never had a problem with this but now I catch him watching me out of the corner of his eye. I can understand him not wanting to go through all the drama and BS he went through in the past and I do understand that my dx probably brings a lot of bad memories back but I really feel like I am living in her shadow and suffering for her sins.
We are both trying to work our way through all this, but he has a distrust of psychiatrists, due to her's being a script passing qwack. And she never had psycotherapy that I go to every other week.
I am afraid of confronting him with this, as his way of coping is to not talk about it. I know we will eventually have to discuss it, but I'm just not sure how to go about it without him shutting it out.
Any advice would be helpfull,
Tracy
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