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Old Aug 16, 2020, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by BethRags View Post
I experience that miserable obsessive thinking when I am in a mixed state; it's common for BD. My mind gets stuck on one theme and just will not let it go for days. It's like a record playing that follows me constantly, even in my sleep.

My husband...I appreciate that he's a spiritual person, then again his answer to everything I bring up that bothering me is to tell me to pray about it. Everything. I feel like he's not empathizing with me, not truly listening; he's just giving me a standard answer. So I very seldom bring up my mental health issues anymore - or any issues.

It's painful when a spouse doesn't want to understand mental illness.

How old are your children?

I don't think it's at all unusual to feel like you are more connected to your therapist than to your wife. Not unusual, but disheartening.
Have you expressed this to him?
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