I'm scared.
and pissed off.
I don't know how many of you know the details of my home life, but, for those who don't know: my wife is bi-polar (type II - or so they think so far).
about a year ago, after waiting 6 months on a referal, she was finally able to see a psychiatrist. this psych was able to recommend and prescribe a med, but basically told my wife that she wouldn't be able to continue seeing her on a regular basis because she had a full patient load and my wife isn't "ill enough"...
let's get something out of the way here: we have a severe shortage of GPs in our area. it's not like we can pick and choose them. free health care is fantastic - when you can actually get some. plus, apparently you have to be nuts enough to not be able to function in normal society in order to actually be able to see a shrink here. my wife has learned to compensate so well over the years - and is quite often perfectly fine when medicated - that she's not viewed as being "severe" enough to warrant any REAL help.
anyway... in January she began having some issues again, so our GP - who admits he knows almost nothing about the disease - suggested an additional med. that smoothed things out again for a few months - except for the small side-effect of completely killing her sex drive. in April of this past year she started to slip again, and after doing her OWN research and basically presenting it to the GP, he prescribed another med to replace the second one. THAT one had the pleasant ( <---- sarcasm ) side-effect of causing her to over-eat. given the weight issues she already struggles with, that just led right back to depression. so she stopped taking it late last week, because she had another appointment scheduled with the GP tomorrow to ask him about trying yet another med. there's more to it - rapid-cycling when she shouldn't be, etc etc - but those are the broad strokes.
well, she ain't gonna make it to that appointment. today, her suicidal urges got so bad that she left about an hour ago to go to the ER and get herself checked into the inpatient/psych ward there.
I am now officially ALONE with the kids. our closest relatives, geographically-speaking, are an hour and a half away - but these are people we see maybe once a year and don't even know overly well. my parents and all the CLOSE relatives are over 1000 miles away.
apparently they only keep people at the inpatient psych for a max of 72 hours, to get them levelled off. if that's all it turns out to be, it won't be a big deal - she's taken longer business trips than that before.
it's more the unknowns of what's going to happen over the next few days - plus the thought that it might turn into MORE than a few days - that are freaking me out........
so if you don't see me in chat for a few days, this is why.
on the plus side, at least I actually have something to talk about now.
and pissed off.
I don't know how many of you know the details of my home life, but, for those who don't know: my wife is bi-polar (type II - or so they think so far).
about a year ago, after waiting 6 months on a referal, she was finally able to see a psychiatrist. this psych was able to recommend and prescribe a med, but basically told my wife that she wouldn't be able to continue seeing her on a regular basis because she had a full patient load and my wife isn't "ill enough"...
let's get something out of the way here: we have a severe shortage of GPs in our area. it's not like we can pick and choose them. free health care is fantastic - when you can actually get some. plus, apparently you have to be nuts enough to not be able to function in normal society in order to actually be able to see a shrink here. my wife has learned to compensate so well over the years - and is quite often perfectly fine when medicated - that she's not viewed as being "severe" enough to warrant any REAL help.
anyway... in January she began having some issues again, so our GP - who admits he knows almost nothing about the disease - suggested an additional med. that smoothed things out again for a few months - except for the small side-effect of completely killing her sex drive. in April of this past year she started to slip again, and after doing her OWN research and basically presenting it to the GP, he prescribed another med to replace the second one. THAT one had the pleasant ( <---- sarcasm ) side-effect of causing her to over-eat. given the weight issues she already struggles with, that just led right back to depression. so she stopped taking it late last week, because she had another appointment scheduled with the GP tomorrow to ask him about trying yet another med. there's more to it - rapid-cycling when she shouldn't be, etc etc - but those are the broad strokes.
well, she ain't gonna make it to that appointment. today, her suicidal urges got so bad that she left about an hour ago to go to the ER and get herself checked into the inpatient/psych ward there.
I am now officially ALONE with the kids. our closest relatives, geographically-speaking, are an hour and a half away - but these are people we see maybe once a year and don't even know overly well. my parents and all the CLOSE relatives are over 1000 miles away.
apparently they only keep people at the inpatient psych for a max of 72 hours, to get them levelled off. if that's all it turns out to be, it won't be a big deal - she's taken longer business trips than that before.
it's more the unknowns of what's going to happen over the next few days - plus the thought that it might turn into MORE than a few days - that are freaking me out........
so if you don't see me in chat for a few days, this is why.
on the plus side, at least I actually have something to talk about now.
The pills are the real only way out of bi-polar disorders in the short term, and most of them do kill everyone's sex urge
Hope you get through it dude! If you got time pop up at the chat we'll try to cheer you up with overall silliness
Anyhow, really hope everything gets ok!