is anyone here have a husband/wife who's suffering from brain defects/mental conditions?

Question

how do you cope with your everyday life with him/her and does he/she burdens you?

does your children understanding with his/her condition?

Answer 1

I am the significant other that has the mental condition instead of the other way around. I am a bi-polar manic depressive with psychotic features. I also have severe OCD, acute paranoia and dellusions of granduer. My fiance sometimes finds it hard to deal with me on a day to day basis because of the extreme mood swings that I have, even with medication, they sometimes happen, just depending on triggers around me. That is the main problem we have, is that he doesn't know what to expect from one moment to the next. The OCD is a really touchy subject with the two of us, because he thinks he should be able to put things where ever and that I should be able to suck it up and deal. My doctor has tried to explain to him how having OCD affects people, and how having things out of place can make them upset, and he tries to work with me on it, but sometimes he gets so frustrated that he gets angry with me. The paranoia and the dellusions of granduer aren't really a problem for us, because I don't think people are out to get me, I think God hates me and does things to me intentionally, and apparently to doctors that's a whole different kind of paranoia. The dellusions are because I think I can rule the world, but who doesn't at some point in time think they can rule the world, right? That's pretty much how things go in our house most of the time.