I am bipolar w/manic depression, alone with 3 children and hubby in Iraq any ideas on how i can get him home!?

Question

I dont know what to do hubby is away in iraq and comes home around the beginning of sept. I am entering the severe depression stage again and severely worried about being left alone with my new born baby. Any ideas on how i get through this. I refuse to take medication. I hate the numbing feeling the medication gives me. Hubby helps control emotional waves. I am a sleeping and cold medication taker to sleep away the depression stage over all i dont know what to do...

Answer 1

You need to get some counseling, and if the drugs make you feel numb then it's not the right drug, I take effexor and I don't get a numb feeling. You need to get better for your children they need you. get help now. Life is not what we thought when we were younger, anything can happen and you need to make yourself better. I pray your husband comes home okay, but we don't live forever. You need to make sure you are capabile of going on in your life incase something does happen.

Answer 2

You really need to just take the medication and deal with the numbness for the sake of your children. Your other option is to try different meds until you find one that doesn't make you so numb (there are a ton of different meds out there). You should also try to find a family member that would be willing to take your kids for awhile, or a family member that would be willing to live with you for another month until your husband gets home.
Taking sleeping and cold medication isn't going to help your children-getting appropriate antidepressant medications and therapy from a trained psychologist or counselor will. You can try to find out information about psychological resources out there for military families...that may be a really good start.

Answer 3

Tell the doctor about the neg effects of the meds and try others until you find one that works for you .

Distracting a deployed person with home traumas can make them less focused and get him killed .

You should deal with the doctors because even coming home to issues he should not have to handle , after being in a war zone , is way too much to put on a person.

For the sake of your entire family , see the doctors and find a way to get healthy .

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Answer 4

All medication doesn't make you numb. That's bull and a cheap cop out. You haven't spent enough time seeking the right cocktail. If not for yourself, then for you kids, get your friggin' *** into a psychiatrist and start taking meds. Dam chica, you are being one selfish irrisponsible idiot of a mother. Grow up. Face reality. You have an illness that requires meds.

Deal with it.

Honesty from another bipolar.

Answer 5

Getting your husband home is not the answer. Getting yourself help is.

Talking therapy can really help you sort out your feelings. You are not required in any way to take drugs, and talking things out is most times just as effective as medication. Go see a psyCHOLOgist, not a psyCHIATRist. They don't prescribe drugs, and they can help you work this out.

It's good that you trust and love your husband, but he has not spent more than six years learning how to help people heal their minds. A psychologist has.