Help with son.....bipolar?

What he needs is a good shrink,and it is not diagnosed in just one session.If your healthcare is nto doing their job,keep complaining.

Hi there,

My name is Dianne and my husband is bipolar and has had extreme bipolar episodes in his past years. He's been locked up and hospitalized and psychoanalyzed and put in counselling groups, etc etc.

I'm new here and I want to introduce myself slowly and carefully so I don't hurt anybody's feelings.

The thing with us is that we're not in trouble anymore... my husband is basically stable. The other thing is we didn't accomplish that with drugs. We used alternative meds.

I'll just leave it at that for now, waiting to see if anybody is interested to know such things... You're so welcome to see our website where we'd like to let all the bipolar people in the world know that complementary and alternative meds can change your life--give you a life.

In friendship,

Dianne Hansen

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Thanks,
serafena}

Post Edited By Moderator (serafena) : 3/15/2009 5:23:51 PM (GMT-6)

Thank you so much Serafena for those web sites. I will read them tonite. I am just sick in my stomach over what has happened to him. It's like a mental breakdown.

Thanks to everyone! He was in several treatment programs in his teens & I was told he didn't want to quit drinking. End of story. We just thot he was an alcoholic (which he is) & didn't want help. Now I think he wants help. And I think he drinks to fight off whatever (bipolar, mania) is going on with him.

This espisode was a first. He has never acted like this before. When he comes home he's coming off of a drunk & sleeps, drinks a lot of water & after about 4 days he's fine. He's very hyper, talks non stop, very comical, eats a lots. Then he gets antsy & wants to leave so he can drink again. This time he didn't seem to want to leave. He got into this mood of not talking at all & just staying in his room. He would come to me about every 2 hours saying that he was leaving because bad things were happening to us because he was here. Said he felt guilty for lying to me over the years. He stopped eating. We had to convince him take a shower after about 3 days. He constantly wanted us to tell him that we wanted him to stay here. I really think he was trying to starve himself. Was very despondent. Then he said God was sending him signs that we wanted him dead. Then he started seeing & hearing things that weren't there. That's when I called the crisis center.

I talked to him yesterday & he did sound a little better & I will visit him today. He is still a little confused & may very well be back in the down mood when I see him. When he was here his mood would change from minute to minute. I am hoping that he really is better. I am going to ask him to sign the paper giving the doctor permission to release his treatment program to me. Afterall he is staying with us & I feel like I need to know what is going on, how to react & what I can do to help him.

I must admit that I had given up on him many years ago. I am praying everyday that this "mental breakdown" is a good thing & will take him in the right direction to turn his life around. He's such a great person.