Family & Friends of Bipolar Support Group

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Desperatly seeking help

sossie
sossie
My husband does not have bi-polar but I have read a lot about it in my study of mental illness. He does however have dissocative idenitiy disorder which is also know as multiple personailty disorder. I have been looking for the last year for some kind of support system where I can vent and even hear some good advice on how to deal with his issues. I try to journal everyday here and in a book. It helps because I am so alone. His family nor mine really understand what it is that I have deal with on a daily basis, he does but it is hard to tell him why I am crying when he switches and doesn't remember the horrible things he has just said to me. I just really need some friends right now!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Although I don't really know about mpd, i am here to listen. I have lost time before, but I went to see people i had to have been in contact with, and they said that there was nothing noticeably different about me.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Has he been diagnosed as having dissociative identity disorder, or any thing else by a psychiatrist? Is he on any meds?
Do you have any professional counseling or a support group where you live?
sossie
sossie
He has been diagnosed and he was seeing a psychiatrist then decided one day that he could do it himself and didn't want anybody else in his head. Because of last weeks events where he threaten to kill me and I had to leave. I told him that I would not come home unless he went back to therapy and stopped drinking. Drinking just adds fuel to his already hot fire. There are not many support groups. The closest thing is NAMI which is great but they didn't really know a lot about it and there wasn't anybody else there who was dealing with the same thing. I do go see his MD and have never stopped even when he did but it is hard because she wants me to pressure him into coming back and now that I have given me an ulimatium she is happy.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I am reading a book called What Goes Up...Surviving the Manic Episode of a Loved One by Judy Eron. It is written by a woman in a similar position to you whose husband stopped treatment. (It was BP, not DID/MPD, but still similar) Look it up on amazon. Maybe reading this book might help your family to understand too.

Please stick with your ultimatum, and stick with counseling for yourself. You will need it to be strong.