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I have some questions, and looking for help with my AD.
I am glad to have seen this post. It does answer a lot of questions about a major depressive episode that my AD is going through right now.
She relapsed 4 days ago.
She has been clean since, but she is extremely depressed.
She went to an NA meeting the very next day and seemed to have pulled herself together, but now she seems even worse...sleeping all day and night, gets up for just the necessities.
What to do?
I went in an hour ago to tell her to get up and get some sunshine. It is gorgeous outside at about 80 degrees. She said she had a bad headache,and I looked over on the other side of the bed and found a note written to:
"Dear Family"
Scared the pants right off of me...I took it and read it, and, she states in it she is very depressed and wants to drink and take drugs to relieve her depression and the way she feels in this life. She says she can't be clean and wants to ease the pain of life by self medicating with narcotics and alcohol.
I don't know how to handle this. It did not outright say she was killing herself or wanted to die, although the words seem to be there between the lines.
I strongly feel she needs mental health intervention...although I don't know exactly what to do.
Do I take her to the hospital? This is really getting to me and the lives of others who live here with my husband and I. (My Mom and Dad--elderly folk with gentle hearts, and my granddaughter who is five years old)
I have a strong desire to get her out of here and away from my home--I have tried to help but it seems nothing works.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I just don't know what to do anymore--am I rushing it for her to be better? I see it does take time to get over a depressive episode. Should I just lay low and let her get over it? How long is a long enough time?
Please, any thoughts or comments would be so very welcomed.
I am so weary...
Wolfstarr
She is 4 days clean.
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