Hello everyone! I am needing some advice. I am with someone diagnosed with GAD and panic disorder.
I am having a very hard time understanding GAD and how it can make your body feel. He is currently recieving therapy and on an assortment of medications. Within the last month or so he refuses to get out of bed. He can sleep all day long. I will tell him to get up and get ready for work. He acts like he is awake and then when I leave for work he never gets up and sleeps all day. He complains of constant aligments. He has constant irrational thinking. We aren't even able to pay our bills do to this. He says he is trying. But when you don't have this condition you don't understand. All you see is the individuals actions. I have began resenting him due to this. Our financial stability and family are crumbling around us. I have to take care of everything. He won't mow the yard or even help take the trash out. He is fine though when it comes to sitting on the computer and doing his online classes or playing a game on the internet. He says I need to learn to understand him. I don't even know where to begin. I felt like if he cared about his family he would go to work. I hate to say this but he has excuses for everything. Nothing is ever his fault. Everyone one is on his back. I try to motivate him but apparently I'm not doing a very good job. I am so mentally drained I feel as if it's hard to function to good these days myself. If anyone has any sort of advice PLEASE let me know. I am desperate. I love him with all my heart but I can't keep trying so hard if he isn't gonna show me that's what he wants. I don't know if it's the meds he is on or the disorder itself. I want to help him!!!
Hello Erica and welcome to the site
Living with a person who as general anxiety disorder as you found out can be very overwhelming, altough you want to help your husband comes a point where you dont have the tools or the knowledge to do so and yes it drains your energy as your left in charge of everything...I can only speak of my experience with GAD and your question's did hit home, meaning I remember all to well being in the state that your husband is in.
I trough some therapy and medication have a good quality of life it was a long and bumpy haul, learning to live with GAD is not a overnight thing believe me but again it is possible.
If I may I would like to suggest that you start focusing on you as you said its very draining and in my view you need to take care of your basic needs.
Try to find a psychologist or and a support group in your community where you will be able to talk with people who are going trough the same issues as you remember that your not alone.
Keep us posted on how you are doing
I hope this was of some comfort
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