Thanks for your reply. My husband is in the medical field and has grown more strident over time. We get along well in many ways, but this is not one of them. He is from Germany and when he trained, psychologists were not recognized. They even had to pay for patients to see them during training. He grew up with that. A few years ago, I got a master’s in counseling and we were both blown away by some of the unscientific things I learned. I moved past it. He didn’t.

My husband trusts my psychiatrist and went with me when I was dx with bipolar 2. He asked questions, but he spends so much time reading about medical illness that he won’t make time for bipolar. I will ask my psychiatrist to talk to him.

Another thing he said yesterday is that if I were a car, he’d invoke the lemon law.

I’m not afraid of abuse. I just want him to have compassion.