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Monday, July 28, 2008
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My husband recently took sixteen of my bipolar daughter's pills and then called 911...after talking suicide for a couple of weeks and his behavior getting unbearable, and being delusional. (not his biological daughter, ironically,but we brought her here to help her get help, after finding out she was homeless, on no meds for bipolar, on Methadone to get off Heroin, and also had been kidnapped at knifepoint). Then when he got ourt of the hospital he left me.

I did talk him into going to get mental help; he now has a therapist/psychiatrist. But he told me they said he has depression, anxiety and ADHD. I KNOW he is bipolar, but if he just tells them his side of things how will they know this? He was verbally/emotionally abusive, mad about crazy things all the time like my daughter being on the phone on a Sat. nite or drinking out of a glass instead of a plastic cup in the house...attacking me for such stupid non-issues all the time too, argumentative to the nth degree, says everything he's going thru is because of me, talks bad about me to everyone, cries and when I hold him he breaks away and says it's my fault he's like this...tells people I 'berated" him when he got out of the hospital when in reality I was as nice as could be...and finally left for the second time last weekend, as he admitted he just couldn't be civil to me, resented me for his condition (I have always been madly in love with him and treat him as such; but he he resents my kids, his new business failed, we were suffering financially, and he just lost it...)

I am facing losing our home now as he is living with his parents and I can't pay the bills on my own. Already having a very mentally ill daughter is so hard and now I cannot believe it turns out he is too! He used to be so in love with me, but as he started getting depressed and abusive, it seems to have turned into hate. My question is, how can I talk to his therapist or psychiatrist? He is undoubtedly lying to them and telling them I have been bad to him or mean or other lies. Will they be able to tell without knowing all the signs of bipolar he's been exhibiting? Even his friends brought up his acting bipolar, before I ever said a word about it.

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