throw998away

Solved, no. Helped, maybe.

We have a very strong suspicion our 16 year old is dealing drugs. He disappears for days at a time with no money and returns completely off his face. Being able to see where he is is not really about being popular with him.

It also doesn't help that I have aspergers. So she assumes all her problems are down to that and its me who just needs to sort things out..

Interesting. I haven't looked into bipolar before.

You talk as though I have any control over her whatsoever. She is pretty much uncontrollable. If I tried to suggest she needs to see a psychiatrist it would pretty much ensure she would never see one.. I am pretty much at the end of my tether now.

My wife went through a rough patch a little while ago and decided she was depressed. She had no problem getting SSRIs prescribed by the doctor.

She says as soon as she started taking them, she instantly felt better. No more randomly bursting into tears.

But, she is no longer the wife I had. Her conversation is so slow. She regularly forgets what she was talking about, repeats herself. Basic chores are just forgotten about. She drinks more than ever, has started smoking. Her diet is awful. If she can be bothered to eat it is probably a chocolate bar at lunch time. She has gained about 4 stones in weight.

She never took up the counselling that she felt she needed before starting on the SSRIs.

She tried cutting down on her medication a little while ago, but this made her incredibly paranoid. So instead she has had to increase it.

All I see from it is an ever decreasing spiral into ruin.