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Bipolar disorder: ‘It’s nothing to be ashamed of’
DO> This is totally true. In my company it’s an
asset.
‘Trip’ an involving look at mental illness
DO> Hmm. What do you think of this?
Coping with bipolar disorder
DO> Pretty good article.
Friday walk raises suicide awareness
DO> This is great.
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The article about Don Rice really upset me again. Some of his hurtful words and threatening behaviour are very similar to my boyfriend’s. At least I managed to get him into treatment before anything really bad happened. Looking back on the last week I think he was planning the Big Exit. Every day his mania got a little bit worse with occasional short times of normality in between. These moments made me believe there was going to be a turn-around. Then there were the moments of remorse and apologies often followed by floods of tears when the pain in his eyes nearly wrenched my heart out. Then the terrible mania again. He hinted a couple of times that he was going to finish it all as he had failed to carry out the special task God had sent him to do. His creativity went out the window when the religious delusions got worse. He took all his belongings – important documents, works of art, valuable books, sentimental photographs and ornaments; clothes, junk and rubbish (e.g. empty dog food tins) and arranged a strange display in my front garden, stuffing a lot of it into the car. He asked me to take care of the dog, as he would get a new one (? He adores this dog) and he was “going away” for a while, as soon as he found the car keys. I’m glad he didn’t find them – must have been his guardian angel who hid them. The car’s breaks still needed fixing and I think he intended to drive it straight into the river.
Two separate nights he didn’t stay here and I don’t know (not sure he knows) where he was. I didn’t let him in the house because he threatened me, but not long after he left I got worried he may harm himself. I was relieved when he finally answered the phone although he was damned rude to me.
Unfortunately Sherry Rice didn’t get her husband into the psych ward because the “crazy authorities” waited for him to commit a crime first. That’s outrageous and I’m grateful it isn’t like that here. I may have saved my man’s life.
If I hadn’t discovered Dave’s website and all the emails and blogs I would not have endured this episode for half as long. Most likely I would have argued back and thrown him out of the house after he threatened me. However, I “studied” bipolar disorder through Dave’s emails and this blog and therefore understood the symptoms. Only when it got really bad and constantly escalating I knew that I couldn’t help him just with love and understanding, and had to take action.
I read the news, well most of it and one story in the grand Rapids (Michigan) Press hit home for me since I was born and raised just a bit south of Grand Rapids. The story was about lack of treatment for prisoners in the Jackson (The Main) Prison with Mental Illness. Psychiatrists who suggest that getting treatment for mental illness might even interfere with getting approved for parole. This is not a new thing for the Great State of Michigan. Been going on for as long as I can remember. The Government would rather have people stricken with mental illness homeless and creating havoc for others rather than to pay for them to get the help they need. I have seen State run mental institutions shut down putting their patients, who were severely mentally ill in the mainstream public, in no better shape than when they first entered the institution. I worked for a nursing home where we received mentally ill patients when they reached their 65th birthday. You could tell how mistreated they had been by just simply requests such as: “Hi, how are you today?” they would get a wild look in their eyes and try to find an escape route or just plain fear in their eyes and try to withdraw as far away as possible. But the worst was when they were admitted, they came in so stoned out they were more like zombies than living people. Good old Thorazine was the drug to abuse the most in those days but sometimes the Thorazine would back up in their systems and instead of zombies they would be very much alive and very combative toward whoever was the closest person to them. I have also known some men who have been in the Jackson State Prison (every man sentenced to prison goes to Jackson 1st for eval and then sent on to another location except the die hard murderers), mentally ill, did their time wherever they were sent and released to repeat the things that landed them in prison in the 1st place. Sorry I don’t mean to nag but this is a real pain in my heart as a couple of those men were my brothers and one was a husband. In desperate need of mental help but none made available to them. My 2 brothers have committed suicide and I hold the State of MI responsible for it although they would never admit any wrong doing. I sent the writer of this story an email thanking him for the revelation of the penal system and let him know I would really like to see him continue with this story line until the State had to change it’s tactics with the mentally ill. Thank you David for always providing us with the best of information.