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Posted by tina on January 21, 2001, at 8:15:40
What's a good med for grief and confusion and rage?
Posted by mars on January 21, 2001, at 11:09:18
In reply to I'm going crazy, posted by tina on January 21, 2001, at 8:15:40
Tina ~
Sometimes the best "med" is to talk about what's going on in your life.
What's going on? Are these old feelings that keep reoccurring? Or have you started feeling these more recently?
For what it's worth, I've had quite a bit of experience with all three, and would be happy to lend an ear.
best,
mary
> What's a good med for grief and confusion and rage?
Posted by tina on January 21, 2001, at 14:39:04
In reply to Re: I'm going crazy, posted by mars on January 21, 2001, at 11:09:18
> Tina ~
>
> Sometimes the best "med" is to talk about what's going on in your life.
>
> What's going on? Are these old feelings that keep reoccurring? Or have you started feeling these more recently?
>
> For what it's worth, I've had quite a bit of experience with all three, and would be happy to lend an ear.
>
> best,
>
> mary
>
> > What's a good med for grief and confusion and rage?Husband just informed me that he has been having an affair. The rest I'm sure you can guess.
I am having a really hard time with this. I feel like my head is going to spiral and there's a hole forming under me and I'm being sucked into it. I'm going psychotic.
Posted by mars on January 21, 2001, at 19:39:09
In reply to Re: I'm going crazy-Mary, posted by tina on January 21, 2001, at 14:39:04
Tina, I remember when that happened to me. He was my oldest friend - I'd known him for twenty years. I can't imagine anyone not having a hard time with it, babe. I was beside myself.
It took time. I aked him for a divorce, which he hadn't expected, but which for me was the best decision in the long run. I eventually had to take a month of medical leave from work and just collapse - I was screwing up work, kept calling in sick, so my mangager insisted on it (and I was still pretty new at my job). I talked to friends, who were good and helped by calling him all sorts of names. I cried my ass off. I increased my lithium and my parnate (same pdoc I have now.)
I tried to treat myself to little things that weren't self-destructive. I forced myself to get out of the house - went to parks, went on ferry rides, sat and stared off into the distance. I went to tons of movies. I kept telling myself that I was better off without him - he'd never been all that supportive of what I was going through, even though the whole time I've known him I'd been clear about my depression. I found people to spend the holidays with. It may sound trite, but I took things one day at a time. And I told him just how much he had hurt me.
Who do you have to talk to? What's your situation like?
I'll be thinking of you, and I'll be around psycho-babble. You are welcome to vent. Venting helped me a lot.
mary
> Husband just informed me that he has been having an affair. The rest I'm sure you can guess.
> I am having a really hard time with this. I feel like my head is going to spiral and there's a hole forming under me and I'm being sucked into it. I'm going psychotic.
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