I'm so confused by what my husbands therapist said to me.....It was the first appointment after the initial one that is just paperwork where his behavior was discussed. I participated by speaker phone. I told her about what I felt were the worst behaviors and episodes that happened, things like threatening my pet rabbit and trying to kick my dog down a flight of stairs. He liked to basically through temper tantrums and use whatever means he had to get his way.....very manipulating. Everyday life became about not setting him off...I readjusted myself and my behaviors to avoid his outburst.

So I have tried to keep peace till this first real session, I wanted to know what the therapist was going to say....I could tell she was concerned as I began explaining what he had done. She called me later in the evening and told me based on what she heard and from his own confessions that she felt he was a sociopath and that he needed extensive and aggressive treatment, she felt he was a danger to himself as well as me and the children. She felt he shouldn't be around animals either.

She said something next that really hit me like a brick.....she said that even aggressive partial hospitalization may not help him. She was trying to tell me to forget him and get away from him because she felt he would never get better. I have done a bit of reading on sociopath behaviors and I believe she may be right.......

I lost my father to alcoholism, my mother who is still alive to dementia, My daughter struggles with her condition and autism and now I am losing my husband to a mental disorder that probaly came form years of abuse as a child. I swear I would take years off of my life to make them all well, happy and at peace with their lives.....

My GOD.....I'm in shock..... I have lost so many people to addictions or mental illness it is tragic....