Comments on: Can I Have My Manic Loved One Hospitalized?

By: sad

sad — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:07:09 +0000

my husband of 7 years was alittle stressed out at work, he told me he was suicidal in the past 1 attempt, on 03-01-2010 while my teenage daughter was sleeping my husband attempted suicide by overdose prescription meds, anti-depressants,valium, he must have fallen asleep for several hours out in his truck, woke up beating on the door scared the heck out of my poor daughter she called me i called 911, he almost died , he returned home is refusing to seek help, we are devastated by this ..but without medication & therapy i will have to remove myself & kids from this situation, is there any hope for him?

By: MamasDelusions

MamasDelusions — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:56:43 +0000

My mother was bipolar and she self medicated herself to death (heroin, crack, wahtever she could) at the ripe old age of 38. I was 20 at the time and hadn’t spoken with her in at least a year. She never met my daughter (she was 3 months old when my mom died) and was very sad that I wouldn’t let her. I told her to get clean and get hel, then we would talk about her knowin her granddaughter. Well My daughter is now 16 and her boyfreind shows clear signs of bipolar. He goes in to manic rages and cant control himself, he is needles to say not allowed aroud my daughter anymore. He is a sweet kid and he has a good heart, but he needs help. The nice kid moments are few and far between these days, I have given his mother number and number, website after website and she just says he wants attention. Today he is threatening suicide (which he has done before)while I was on the phone with him, I told his mother to call the cops, tell them he is in a rage and threatwning to kill himself. I told her they will take him to the hospitol for a psych hold, but she just says he wants attention, I told her to get her head out of her ass, that her sons problems will not just go away, you cant wish him better. I told her I know its scary to think your son may be mentally ill, but not as scarey as finding him dead in his room. I know it sounds harsh but sometimes you just need to be blunt with people, I dont want to see her son in pain needlessly because with the right help he will be a productive wonderful person.

By: Claire Udkoff

Claire Udkoff — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:27:23 +0000

What do u say when you have been with your husband for 7 plus years then all of a sudden one day.He says that I have to choose between my son and brother-in-law or him,I DO NOT believe in having to choose.If you dissagree with him then he threatens me and I feel that my life and my frinds are all in major danger.He has a way of sugar coating something like when I dragged you through the house it was for your own good.That is complete Bullshit.What advice can you give me?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:57:26 +0000

I’m a 49 year old woman who had no history of mental illness. I was involutarily committed for a three week stay at a mental hospital in May 2008 because of a psychotic episode. I was destroying our retirement nest-egg because I believed that money meant nothing. I bought a $55,000 car and wrote a hot check for it, then bought thousands of dollars worth of clothes and plants. I thought I was a mermaid named Pangea. I took my clothes off at the emergency room and went running out of the building. That wasn’t enough to get me committed. It was only when I started throwing furniture while I was in my waiting cubicle that the decision was made to have me assessed by the mental health professional. The process from the initial emergency room visit to the admission to the mental hospital took 8 hours because the number of mental hospital beds in Washington State has been steadily decreasing every year. I am writing a book about the experience. The working title is “I Thought I Was A Mermaid”. I also have a blog at crazymer1.wordpress.com.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:34:19 +0000

Jen, on july 11,09 at 12:32pm
Im so glad i’m not the only one going through this. My mom had to be hospitalized while manic and thinking she was perfectly fine. She was extremely agitated but not suicidal so they were ready to send her back home even though i got her there with the ambulance. I didn’t feel safe sleeping with her at night with my 3yr old in the house. I had to get her minister to talk her into signing the papers to commit herself. She wasn’t happy about it but she for some reason listens to him and not me. Its been 13 days and i can see the improvement, she is talking to me now where at 1st she hated me when i went to visit. She should be coming home soon and hope she realize that it was only because we love her that we wanted to admit her. its not fair that we have to wait until suicide attempts or violent threats to take a loved one to hospital to get help. ITS BETTER TO CATCH AND TREAT IT EARLY.