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Bia
Community Member
Hi. I have joined this group hopeing i can get some answers or advice. I am desprately trying to save my marriage. I am married 10 years and have a 6 year old boy. 2 months ago i felt like my whole world fell apart, when the man i love turned into a different person. My husband is a very kind hearted, humble and giving man and a perfect dad. We rarely argued, our home was always filled with love, so you can imagine my shock when my husband suddenly became a . To make a long story short, just found out he has rapid cycling BD. He has never told about his condition. 15 years ago was his first relapse after being diagnosed with BD in his early twenties. He has been on no medication for the past 15 years, and 2 months ago relapsed due to too many stressful things in his life, job loss and a friends death to name afew.
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geoff
Champion Alumni
Champion Alumni
dear Bia, hello, and by seeing your husband change so much must have been a terrible shock for you and your son, that is
if he actually saw what was going on.
It would have been such an effort for him to cope with BD for all this time without getting the medical attention he may
have needed, because when someone has BD then their moods change dramatically, and it's not something which he could have
hidden, and his change of moods could suddenly happen by what's happening around him.
I think that now is the time he needs to see his doctor who should have known to some extent that he has BD, and adviced
him to take some medication to help him along and then monitor how he is going. Geoff. x

Bia
Community Member

Thanks for your reply. He has seeked help, was hospitilised for 4 weeks and now is an outpatient at the hospital. He has moved in with his parents and has told me not to wait for him in vain. Im still in total shock that this is happening. He has pushed me away and i have become the enemy. During his hospitilisation i found out i was pregnant and did not tell him.

 With all the stress i got shingles and then had a miscarriage. Then i was diagnosed with skin cancer. He found out about the cancer through friends and actually came with me for the surgery, but it didnt feel like he was there with me. He showed no sympathy at all. Since then he has not even asked how i am. Yesterday i made contact with him and it was the first time he spoke to me for more than 1 minute. 36 minutes to be precise. Is this progress? Will he ever get better and realise what he is doing to his family? He said he is taking his medication and that he has a plan. Plan???? Plan to trick the drs in believing he is taking the medication??? Didnt tell me what his plan is. He only talks about his son and that he wants me to let him stay the weekend with him. I refused and told him that i am not protecting our son from him, which i am , but pretecting him from our son realising that daddy is not acting normal and changing his opinion of hos daddy, who he adores.  I let him see our son whenever he likes but only under my supervision. Im so tired and emotionally drained. I am trying hard not to hate my husband and to keep on loving him, but he has caused me and my son so much grief. Rapid cycling BD, miscarriage, shingles and now  cancer. How much can i take before i break? I am not just his enemy now but the whole family has turned against me and they dont even know what i have been through. I am a strong women that would never give up but suddenly ive become so weak and im just about to give up. I don' t know how much longer i can go on like this and continue being the best mum possible for my son.

Bia
Community Member
I am also scared that my husbands condition is based on genetics because his whole family seem strange. The sister used to be an alcoholic and is suffering from so called drpression, the brother is a heavy drug user and i have witnessed him once in a manic state and phycotic, screaming about god and saying he has been chosen to continue the work of Jesus. So you see,i now am scared that my son could get this illness. A while ago my son told me that there are little people in his head that are not real but pretend people that sometimes put his memory in the memory room. He also sweats alot like his father and for a young child, he does not sleep much. Most of the times he will sleep 7 or 8 hours max.  Im so worried that this could happen to my son.