I am new to this website and have been reading thru amazing stories and now know I am not alone. My husband I believe is Bipolar. I never knew this disorder could create so much damage in people lives. And how loving someone with a chemical imbalance can take u down emotionally and physically. I truly feel for u Whisky and know how u feel becoz I want more than anything to save the man I love from this disorder that controls his mind and thoughts. But unfortunatly until your wife gets help and surrender to this disorder u will remain on an emtional rollercoaster that can later affect u physically as it did to me. During my husbands last episode he left our home and went off with another women and stopped paying for our home and all the bills I never thought an epsiode would ever go this far and it did. I had to file for a legal seperation to protect myself from his mania of spending. During this time after 7 yrs of madness my health and spirit finally failed at 37 yrs old I was hosptalized and nearly died becoz I developed a tumor that was bleeding inside me my husband had no sympathy for me or our 7yr old daughter he was too high in mania and left me to die and loose everything becoz he said I made him act this way and everything was my fault and I did not know how to love him enough. But I lived and my family saved our home and I am getting my health back. HE is now sorry but still blames me for everything during that whole time he was my worst enemy and hated me for things I never did. I saw the light in all the darkness I can't save this man but I can save me for myself and my daughter and until he faces the truth that he has this disorder I will go back and live in darkness and dispair. I pray for him everyday that's all I can do. That's all anybody who has a sick loved one do we have to let go .........
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