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How do you tell you signifcant other about your MI/Thoughts

How do you tell you signifcant other about your MI/Thoughts

Hi all,

I am at the stage now where I need to start being more open/honest with my partner, in order to go forward and receive the help I need with my MI.

I know I am extremely lucky, I have a person who loves me regardless but am scared to open up, to let them know what I really feeling/thinking, to know about those deamons in my life. I am not talking about letting him know what exactly happened to me, I don't think I will ever do that, but open up in terms of how I am feeling/thinking.

I struggle with telling people on person how I am. I had an extremly hard day yesterday and did not tell him, not beause I didn't want to but was scared too.

All morning I have tried to write is down so I do not have to say it out loud, but even that is hard.

Any advice from anyone would be appreciated. Thanks.

@Faith-and-Hope@Shaz51@Former-MemberI am tagging you because of earlier today

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Re: How do you tell you signifcant other about your MI/Thoughts

If / when my husband is diagnosed, I am going to have a lot of questions for his treatment team. I want to know what has lead him to the behaviours he is invested in .... what function or need are they seeming to meet for him ....

I will want to be available to him to support him emotionally through whatever recovery this will entail, and I imagine there is a sense of shame at the centre of it there somewhere .... but possibly he is carrying shame for someone else ..... more than one other person ..... without realising that this is what it is ..... and then there will be added shame if / when he has to come to terms with the fact that he has been living an unhealthy reality that he mistook for a healthy one.

There is a high risk he will want to lock me out of his situation, but that doesn’t resolve what is, in fact, our situation, even though it wasn’t of my making, and it wasn’t of his conscious making ..... it’s an illness. We are not to blame for such things as accident or illness, or injury inflicted by others ..... we just need to get involved with recovery and support for each other to live with the outcomes.

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