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Originally Posted by joinedintime  My wife and I both think that she's bipolar, possibly rapid cycling. Either way, she seems to fit the description of at least one "flavor" of bipolar from the books and websites we've read. How do I encourage her to get help when she doesn't seem to want to talk to professionals?
We're having huge troubles in our marriage, sometimes going days with little constructive communication so it's a real challenge getting anything across to her. Much of the time it's like I'm trying to reason with a freshman in high school.
Thankfully I'm sober now. Approaching 150 days, going strong. Sometimes I think my sobriety is eating at her. It's like when I was "broken" she felt better about herself in some twisted way.
Everything is pretty twisted actually.
Obviously there is a lot more to this what I've said here.
I don't know if I'm even close to asking the right questions, or giving the right background but I've been able to get great support here at SR so I thought I should give this topic a try.
I don't know how much more of this I can take. It's been really bad for about 16 months. I'm sure I enabled much of her behavior when I was drunk and now I'm seeing that was the case.
What are the odds of someone that has Bipolar being afraid of being diagnosed - except for self diagnosis? afraid of getting better? afraid of not getting better? wanting to be the victim? (that last one is a pattern) |
So you want your wife to get diagnosed and put on legal psychotropic drugs that cause physical and emotional dependance?? I would try some kind of family counseling/therapy 1st. Unless you want a spouse dependant on a miracle pill like Zoloft(pfft). Addiction is addiction wheather its prescribed or not.