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Ups and Downs of Husband`s Mental Illness

Shaz51Senior Contributor10 Dec 2016, 11:56 am AEDT

Ups and Downs of Husband`s Mental Illness

Hello @PeppiPatty, over here my special friend xx

Hello Everyone

Love to hear from others on the forum if you experience this

My hubby has been diagnosed with lots of things and has had MI all his life

do you find things goes ok and i start to feel confident and wanting to go forward and then everytime something always happens to upset it -- sometimes I think is it a controlling thing ?? that he wants to be in control ??

Don`t know if I am making this up , but i have that feeling ,

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DeterminedSenior Contributor11 July 2017, 10:52 am AEST

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Not too stressful I hope @Former-Member but I do understand.
There is a reason I had over 6 months annual leave and 3 months long service leave owing when I quit my job lol.

How long before you have to be back home?
Trust the rest of the trip goes well for you.

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DeterminedSenior Contributor11 July 2017, 10:55 am AEST

Re: Ups and Downs of Husband`s Mental Illness

Not too stressful I hope @Former-Member but I do understand.
There is a reason I had over 6 months annual leave and 3 months long service leave owing when I left my job lol.

How long before you have to be back home?
Trust the rest of the trip goes well for you.

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Cath22Senior Contributor11 July 2017, 3:08 pm AEST

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Thanks @Former-Member - good advice. Hope you are at least getting some good moments on your trip x

@Former-Member wrote:
Hey @Cath22
I think Mr Darcy had 16 different meds in a number of classes. The best thing I did to document what drugs had been given and Mr Darcy's response to them. I got prescribing records from the different pharmacies he had scripts filled at. I reported response to meds (good & bad) ie worked for a short while, became agitated, became hyped up, sex dysfunction, weight gain, hair loss, agitation.
Noting symptoms are also helpful such as mood descriptions (up, down, irritable, suspicious, don't care) behaviours (ie spending, substance abuse, not attending to personal hygiene, being reckless).
All of these can help the docs in finding a med regime that can keep things steady.

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DeterminedSenior Contributor11 July 2017, 9:05 pm AEST

Re: Ups and Downs of Husband`s Mental Illness

@Shaz51 how are you today and mr Shaz?

Trust all is well for you both.

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Shaz51Senior Contributor12 July 2017, 9:30 am AEST

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Hello @Determined, I am off today to have an Endiscope at 12-30pm

how are you today

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DeterminedSenior Contributor12 July 2017, 10:53 am AEST

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Hi @Shaz51
Trust the procedure goes well for you. Will be thinking of you.
Had an endo a couple of times and it wasnt too bad.
Trust they dont find anything.

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Shaz51Senior Contributor12 July 2017, 11:14 am AEST