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Originally Posted by Icare dixit
That's awful.
He does have a point: you need to keep stimulating your mind. A payed job might not be overdoing it. Can you apply for disability?
Maybe (just maybe) a group of people with schizophrenia might be better better than one of people with BP. It depends on whether some would have BP-I with psychosis or not whether one would be more helpful than the other. Maybe there are two support groups.
I have had a bad experience with a BP support group. I felt like a crazy outsider. That doesn't help, obviously. The group on here is so big we've got all sorts, so it's different. But not all BP support groups are like the one I went to, I'm sure. It's just something maybe worth considering.
Of course your husband is being a jerk and your therapist is probably right you should focus on other things, ignore it. But I wouldn't compare it to a (physical) illness. Just say you need meds to function as well as possible and your therapist and psychiatrist know better.
Hopefully things will (soon) improve. |
Thank you for your support, friend. I will definitely look into a more specialized support group. I hadn't even thought of seeming like an outsider to a group of those with Bipolar but I do know that everyone struggles with it differently. The psychosis is definitely a difficult struggle and one that few people can relate to.
I compare it to a physical illness because that is my husband's only frame of reference. He has never struggled with depression and the only thing that has kept him down is his physical pain.
I cannot apply for disability because I haven't worked enough in the last 10 years. I abandoned my career to stay at home with our children and it is then that I had my psychotic break, unfortunately. I may go back to work and to school to choose another field of work but I have to test the waters at a job first. And, I intend to start slowly in a small retail job or for a small office. I will not go back into a high stress job like my last one. I know certainly that I will have another break if I do it that way, especially since we will be moving considerably farther away from my family and friends (just about 40 mins) in the coming months. The stress of the move alone worries me.