[mhorn78]

my wife has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and her manic episodes are tearing our family apart.she is a nurse and should no the sign of something being wrong.her dr put her on new meds on Friday which hasn't been long enough to see if it's working.she's still hiding many things such as having many dating site profiles,a private facebook account and lying about who she's talking to and spending money likes it's going out of style.i have told her to talk to me tell me how she's feeling and to talk to a counselor weekly to help.today she's just all over the place mood wise so I'm giving her the space she needs.i love my wife and I don't comprehend what's going on even after reading up on this.i just want my wife back.any help would be greatly appreciated

[Quarter life]

Hi mhorn78.

I have been a member of this site for just over 3 months now. I joined as I suffer from Post Traumatic Stress and associated Depression. I have recieved really constructive feedback and have made several great contacts and friends. For anyone going through a hard time, or those just wanting to reach out and have a chat....This is the place.

Be patient with getting responses to your posts, just keep posting away and feedback will eventually come.

Be kind to yourself. Q.L

[trying_to_learn]

Hey Horn,

I'm really sorry to hear about your wife, that's got to be unbelievably tramatic.

I had a the pretty much the same experience with my father, lying, cheating on my mom, stealing all our money and running off. It took some time to get the medications right, but we finally got him back

I guess the only advice I can offer, is be dilligent with the medication, and for some reason vigorous working out and excercise Really seemed to help with his "compulsive mania"

If you can get her to do it, may be try really heavy excercise, not yoga, I mean "hard excercise" It really helped him "be himself" for some reason.

It's hard, but make sure she stays on her meds, if they miss them it can get bad all over again.

Good luck friend,
Learn

[mhorn78]

thanks for the advice.she went to a psychiatrist last fall who overmedicated her and was asking her and other female patients to watch porn was making sexual advances and just totally messing them up.he was caught but the damage is done.now she has a new dr.new meds she's seeing a counselor weekly and we are excersizing together a few nights a week.i just hope we work on this together but I know if she falls off track again with one of her manic episodes it will push me away

[hamstay]

Hi mhorn, I'm interested to hear more, like how long you've been dealing with this yourself? You say family?? And wanting your wife back?
Your story sounds all too familiar, apart from the added psych part.
Just curious, if you've been dealing with this since you met your wife....
I don't think I can help as much as, letting you know you're not alone...
I did, however, have to make a very difficult decision, in that... my supporting was actually taking more away from me, with the result in him (the BP) being the same....
I don't know if that quite makes sense...
But he keeps carryon with life being exactly the rollercoaster same.... While leaving me less and less within myself...
After 10yrs, for me, the toll on me, is/was too much! Very very difficult decision, but i fairly sure God wants me to get me back now!!

My best advice....Make sure you look after you!! Very important!
Take care, hugs!

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