Yes Penny leaving the Witnesses and having no real friends has been hard for her...also the back injury was the final straw.....she was on some medications but not anymore as the injury is much better....she was panicing about the injury and the stress affected her alot more then any pain.....she seems okay today.
Update- My Wife shows worse signs of Mental Illness! I feel lost!
by Witness 007 18 Replies latest jw experiences
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Gill
Witness 007 - She will not get better until she gets some help, preferably in the form of counselling.
Discovering my whole life had been a 'lie' threw me over the edge in a similar way and when my husband decided he was leaving me I had a breakdown that still takes my breath away now.
I recovered, fully, with a fantastic psychiatrist and counsellor and NO DRUGS, but it took years, but you know what, I don't regret one painful moment of it. That illness was the best thing to ever happened to me!
But I can only say that because of the help I received mainly from professionals.
Your wife may well feel as I do, that my legs had been chopped off. My future horizons had disappeared and as I looked around, I didn't even know where I came from anymore. This cannot be sorted without a well grounded and trained professional. This is a personal 'wipe out' of past and future. You can be as good and supportive and loving as you want, but if someone does not put your wife on the straight and narrow, put her past in perspective and help her recreate a new horizon she will be left in this horrendous limbo.
I hope you can encourage her to seek help.
Someone who continues to deny needing help really does need it, desperately.
Good Luck and best wishes to you both
Gill
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BluesBrother
I have no reason to think that I could give advice, just registering support and concern for you and your lady, 007..Hang on in there. The others advice sounds good to me
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chickpea
a lot of good advice has been proffered
allow me to offer support
from a been there, done that
perspective of having lived
with and loved someone
with mental health issuesrough road on a GOOD day......
set unnegotiable boundaries
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yknot
Witness007,
Maybe she would be willing to do couples therapy.
Sometimes it is easier to accept help with a loved one holding your hand.
If she has any other mental hurdles she might be more willing to pursue additonal help if it is suggest by a marriage counselor.
Worse comes to worse it either improves your marriage or it helps yall transition into divorcedom.
Wishing yall the best
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Witness 007
Yes good advice indeed....I think this will be a long and hard road and whatever happens I hope she will be okay.
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blondie
I agree that it is important to go to a medical doctor and get an accurate diagnosis and not self-diagnosis or diagnose someone as having a mental illness without the qualifications.
To find a support group if a mental illness is diagnosed by a qualified person, try NAMI.
http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=Education_Training_and_Peer_Support_Center
Blondie
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Hortensia
just saying - my husband did all those things, and refused to go to a doctor, and continued to get worse until he tried to kill me. I am afraid for you. My husband turned out to be a drug addict - meth. I'm not saying that your wife is a drug addict, I'm saying that you aren't taking your own safety seriously.
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sass_my_frass
Are you in a position to get you both out of your normal living space for a week or two? A new temporary reality may take the stress off both of you.