I have been trying to cope with my husband staying with a friend, and it has been OK, but I am really starting to believe that he is suffering from a real mental health disorder.

My best friend is a social worker and I have been sharing so much with her and she said it really sounds like he is either bipolar or having some psychosis.

I am really concerned, because he promised that if he went to stay with a friend that he would begin seeing someone for therapy. He has gone once, but I am not sure he really plans to go back. He said his next appointment was the 7th, but then when I said something yesterday, he said he'd have to call and see if he would be going....

I got on and did some research and psychosis does seem to fit what he is going through... And for some reason I seem to be a trigger, and I can't figure out what happened that caused him to start reacting to me this way, but I want him to be diagnosed for whatever he is going through, because it is now affecting our kids.

He will be having gallbladder surgery on Monday, and he said he will come home for maybe 2-3 days, until he feels like he can do things on his own.

I am kinda hoping that maybe they will have just enough of a complication, that they will need to open him up the old fashioned way, and then he will need to stay home longer and I can take him to a few therapy appointments and make sure he really goes.

I am so lost right now, but I am starting to be concerned about his behavior beyond the relationship between just him and me. He is getting nearly irrational with me at times in front of the kids and they are confused about what is happening.

Anyway, I also am getting ready to get off work and head to the hospital for my mom's shoulder surgery.

I just feel really stressed and tired right now, and I want to somehow wake up and find that the past 1-3 years is just a really bad dream and that everything is like it used to be, but that I can then get busy a control my problems before they get as out of control as they did in this nightmare before I decided to do something.

Thanks for any prayers (or just good positive thoughts) you can send up for my whole family. It is going to be a reallllllllly looooooooong summer, I think!