found this site a few weeks ago during a bad week and figured i'd join up for some sanity help.
background: my wife is bipolar and we've been dealing with it for a few years. nuts and bolts..her grandmother suffered from it,,,and she seems to have won the genetic lotto. She was always moody, but I loved her sassy-not a pushover-ness. dated 3 years- have beed married for 7(diagnosed in year 3 of marriage). her mood swings got progressively worse, became distant and way more symptomatic around year 3. She tried everything, and i mean everything to get me to leave her,but lots of prayer kept me strong. i found her a great doctor, we went together and seperate,,was put on citalopram/40 mg and clonazepam for when she has the hypers-to much coffee-swings. things were fine with minor ups and downs, had a wonderful son,,,and that stress (he's 2 now) added to the ups and downs. For the last 6 months or so the ups and downs are more frequent. i cant imagine what she'd be like if she was on no meds at all. Anyway.....since she was more symptomatic they upped her dosage of citalopram to 60mg's. She says shes better...i agree,,,but not perfect I can always tell when shes "down" as shes an artist and she always draws "sad" people when shes down...she actually confided that on the 60mg...she doesnt feel like just crying for no reason. Im doing o.k.,,,what frustrates me...............she was raised in a family that doesnt talk,,,i was raised the opposite. She still doesnt like to talk about it,,which makes me glom onto her and then get pushed away by the moody wife .......she also has the robot like lack of emotion 90% of the time (along with being basically a-sexual)with me, but thankfully not with my son..(as long as hes not acting like a 2yr old,,,then she just wants to get out for a while). anyway enough venting.............hello,,,look foward to leaning on some of you........