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11/30/2007 17:03
dstclair1415
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I was hoping someone out there can help me, My husband is bipolar he has all the signs and symptoms, his mother and all her family has been diagoised but although he is seein g a therapist he refuses to even go that route, I have tried everything to help him but he still refuses, Well that brings me to now he is in one of his year eposodes where he needs freedom ,feels like a vise is on his head and he is running full force from me and our 3 children, I am really worried this time that he will do something to trash our relationship for good. He is do distant and wont talk about what is bothering him, He has been layed of work and was told he wont go back until june of 08 and I know that is what triggered this but I dont see an end to it? Can anyone relate and give me any kinda advise, to be honest I feel like I've tried it all? He just wants to run?????
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12/15/2007 18:13
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It is cut and run

They cut everything out of their lives and run to another one

Mine is doing the same thing. There is nothing I can do.

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12/15/2007 18:16
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how do we support them and still hold our own self respect? That is the part that I have not been able to handle I feel he is breaking me down too?

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12/15/2007 21:24
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I am not sure

That is the hard stuff

He berates me all the time

But when he is good he is oh so good!

But when he is bad he is horrid

You may want to go to a local mental health group and ask questions

I talk to a shrink he said with a bipolar you are NEVER ever right. You will never win it is always loose/loose

There is a book called loving someons with bipolar it may help, but it only will provided he acknowledges he needs it Mine will not acknowledge it and sinks further and further away

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12/16/2007 07:07
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Hi Anna - I just wanted you to know that I understand completely how you feel. It is so terribly hard when they won't step out from under the black cloud of denial - the person they are hurting the most in the long run is themselves. Unfortunately your husband is condemming himself to a long dark path of heartache and loneliness. You don't have to go on that path with him - but I know how it hurts you so much to have to stand on the sidelines and just watch. I had to do that too, and only now after so many, many years have I been able to heal and to find peace in my life. I had to let him go and understand that I was powerless over his disease, the only one that could have saved him was him, and for some reason that I do not and cannot understand he just wasn't able to do that. Maybe some people are just fundamentally stronger than others - I don't know. But I do understand how you feel. Just wanted you to know that. You are in my thoughts and prayers especially this Christmas season. Try to focus if you can and I know it is really hard, on yourself and on your own happiness - you deserve a peaceful and love-filled life.
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12/16/2007 07:20
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dstclair: I have a little sign on my refridgerator that says "Self-respect is priceless". That is your own and it is not anyone else's to take away.

I look at it as kind of like a tree bearing fruit. The fruit that someone bears is a reflection of their tree. What comes out of that person is only a reflection of what is inside. Your tree is good and loving so that is your fruit - hold on to that thought. Don't let anyone's else's fruit spoil yours. Hope that helps a little. What is inside of you is yours and yours alone - it is not anyone else's to take away!! I became a silent warrior for myself, you can do the same - stand your ground for yourself, even if you only do it silently - One thing I have found is that I could never win with my dad - he wouldn't let me - he worked very hard at putting me in a no win situation every time. I know it was his illness, but I had to fight for me, and I did and I won! You can do the same. I wish they would all work very hard at recovery, but wishing just doesn't make it happen. You can do more than wish for yourself, you are in control of you, no one else.

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12/16/2007 12:20
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Thanks yes I am starting to feel like I need to take control of this situation he wont get help and I can no long live in a life that brings tears to my eyes every other day. One day he is sorry the nexts he is trashing any kind of trust and loyalty our relationship has left. I want my three chrildren to know more out of life than one day Daddy is hear and the next day he is out of the house, maybe it would be different if he got some help, but I guess I have to more forward with a life without him because I really feel he has to be the one to want to get the help. thanks for the inspiring words.

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12/16/2007 12:26
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Can I ask how you finally came to the point where you said enough is enough. I have 3 chrildren, one is not even one yet and although 98% of me want to run and protects us all from him and this dieses, there is always that 2% that keep me here! I dont know if it is fear or what? I just cant seem to get to that 100% to leave!
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12/16/2007 14:40
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You will know when you can't take it anymore. For my mother it was his violence against her - she had to leave for her own safety. He became more and more violent as the years passed and she was really afraid. Her children were grown and she had noone in the house to protect her anymore. That sounds pathetic, but that is how bad it got. Hope your situation is not that bad - but you will know when you have had enough!! Fortunately for me being the child I never thought any of it was my fault, it was just too obvious to me that he was THE PROBLEM even though he kept telling me I had a problem - he never told me what my problem was, just that I had one. Wouldn't you think if I had such a bad problem, that he would have been more specific about what it was? See, it's just crazy!! I never bought into his lies, so that helped me a lot, even though I was a child I always felt way stronger than him. I honestly feel that God gave me the strength to endure and it stayed with me when I needed it the most.
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12/16/2007 17:52
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no he has never laid a hand on me but has cheated to many times, and that I think hurt just as if he hit me. I am so worried about my three kids but hearing you, you sound like you came out of it with a clear head!! thanks so much for the input!!
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