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Wishing you all the luck and peace where you can find it.
Hope your appointment goes well and that you get some peace of mind. Waiting for answers is hell.
Having to do it all by yourself is hard. The fact that you've been able to find any bright side in the whole situation is a testament to your character. Glad to hear your wife's cancer is considered surgically cured. Wishing you all the best for the future.
Not surprising in regards to the stress considering what we’ve been hearing here in the U.K.
Sending Peace.
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I work for a charity helping people cope with the effects of acquired (often traumatic) brain injuries. All of those symptoms (and many more) can indeed be caused by brain injury, although anxiety and depression can be the result of PTSD from the traumatic experience itself. The up side of having an historic traumatic brain injury is that they tend not to get progressively worse. The down side is that there is no cure, only strategies for coping. It is what it is. The people who cope best are those who own it and don’t let it beat them. This is the life you have, try to enjoy it as best you can.
In the 16 years I have been with my wife she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and schizoaffective disorder. Regardless of which diagnosis is correct, her mental health issues manifest as depression, anxiety, and worst of all, mania.
When she is manic she is like a giant wrecking ball looking for the most destructive path possible. Her impulse control is non-existent. The money my mother left us from her 401k when she passed? Gambled away at a casino. Using meth intravenously? Sure, why not? Blowing $400 on Facebook games with money secretly taken from my account so many times I had to lock away my ATM card? Yep. She has taken me to the brink of financial ruin more times than I can count.
She's currently serving 16 months probation for a Class A misdemeanor I won't bother to describe.
Had it not been for our son (her son, technically, but I've been his dad since he was 4) I would have left many times. Every time things settle down and I can think about forgiveness all hell breaks loose yet again.
When Anthony was in high school he started having anxiety issues like his mom so his psychiatrist prescribed him Zoloft. The morning after his first dose he began shaking uncontrollably. After many trips between neurologists and psychiatrists a month later someone was finally able to help him. He would still have the occasional twitch but nothing like the shaking he was dealing with before. But at the beginning of 2020 he began having headaches. A week in ICU later we learned he had an arterial stroke. He had brain surgery later that year and has suffered debilitating headaches off and on ever since.
I'm trying to support the three of us while inflation eats away at my paycheck and medical problems for both my wife and son seem to pop up every day. I had hoped to somehow turn my music into a side hustle but I know that's just a pipe dream. Each day I tell myself, "Just keep putting one foot in front of the other" but sometimes I don't know why.
Thank you to everyone who has opened up. It has really helped me put my paltry challenges in perspective. Thoughts and prayers toward all.
My daughter goes to a private school that was started by the Russian community in the city. One of the teachers and one of the parents are Ukrainian, and the teacher just discovered that her parents’ home in Kyiv was destroyed by a missile strike (they are OK).
As if that wasn’t bad enough, a letter was sent out implying that there has been verbal conflict on school property and asking that people need to be respectful to each other. As if that even needs to be said…
It is good to see the range of human existence and its challenges to help put your own problems into perspective. My wife's pain and the many, many years she supported me with her work and raising our children show me that I have debts to repay when she needs this help in her time of need.
We generally put forward a sanitized version of ourself so we can avoid being judged by others as somehow deficient or less than others. But in reality we are all challenged to
endure some pretty serious challenges and find a way to keep moving forward.
There are no simple solutions for life's most serious challenges but it helps to express your pain and get some acknowledgement of your courage and tenacity to keep going.
Please use this thread to share lifes challenges and get acknowledgement for your efforts to surmount them and endure.
This thread is the anti influencer/celebrity life is so easy if you're rich and famous thread. I love it. This is REAL life. Suffering, and the compassion but no-bull zone that comes with it.
I do wish we could all be living the beautiful and easy life
(but then we might just turn out to be selfish entitled assholes), but I do wish there wasn't quite so much on everyone's plate.
My edits were becoming paragraphs of nonsense, so I decided to delete it and quote you instead. You summarized my thoughts about other people’s stories and that of my own. Thank you.
Thank you for starting this thread, it felt good to express in an unfiltered and unedited manner for once, as you said, we usually put forward a sanitized version of ourself…
Thanks again to everyone else for sharing some of your more intimate thoughts and experiences. I have read them all, but chose not to comment on them all, simply because I don’t know what to say, other than I am extending love out to you all.
@MadeofWax , my brother who passed last year was also schizoaffective. I am out of state and didn’t have to live with him on a day-to-day, but I witnessed how weary and frustrating and heart-breaking it was for my family.
Thank you for sharing and for chiming in. I hope someday, soon, your wife’s mind can find some piece, and that your step-son gets better.(My stepson was also four years old when I met her. He’s 21 now and my son is six.
@iOSTRAKON , I hope you find some answers, and if you don’t, I hope you make piece with not knowing.
Thanks @audiblevideo and anyone else who even just took the time to read.
Thank you @Blipsford_Baubie . On her best days my wife is still the girl I fell in love with. Silly and spontaneous with a laugh that could melt the coldest of hearts. She has been doing the work. She's been in and out of mental health facilities, takes loads of meds and even tried electro convulsive therapy. It's just exhausting having to remain vigilant, never being able to trust the person you share your life with. I can't know what it's like from her side either. I know her remorse is real when her mania passes and the guilt feeds into her depression.
As bad as his headaches are, I'm grateful that Anthony's brain surgery went as well as it did. The surgeon warned us of the worst case scenarios. Things could be much worse.
I'm sorry to hear about your brother and the difficulties your family faced. I had no idea how challenging dealing with a loved one's mental health issues could be until l met my wife.
Of all the places I could think of to share my life's troubles, an iOS music app forum probably wouldn't have been the first to come to mind. But it had been good to let it out and I thank everyone who shared their own troubles here, too.
I'm getting irritated with my roommate. He has this thing where the volume level on the TV has to be an odd number. I want to explode in anger towards him, but, I don't want him to move out because he is a good roommate. But, he always has to grab the remote when he walks in and check it.
Sounds like an OCD compulsion. He's probably not going to even out. Does he show any other unusual compulsions like kitchen cabinet layouts? I've never been around anyone with confirmed OCD but I had a boss that told me he had it. I just found him to be excessively detailed oriented in his workplace products.
It doesn’t necessarily need to be OCD - it could be ADHD - I do similar things to this because it helps me organize things in my head. Things have to be in a certain place, numbers are easier to remember if they are set out in a certain way. When things are off it’s harder to manage things, so I try to organize things in a way that makes sense to me. Even if it seems to someone else that there’s no benefit to doing it that way, it can make a big difference to me. Even things like putting my keys in the ‘wrong’ pocket is hard to deal with - I have to take them out and put them in the ‘right’ pocket as then I stop worrying about forgetting my keys.
Everything in your list is an optimization to avoid some type of pain or worry.
Wanting the volume to be set to 3 or 5 but never 4 is clearly NOT and optimization. It's either
a superstition or OCD behavior or this person is really fucking around with the housemate for one of many potential reasons.
That's how I FEEL about it. (Trying to keep the thread free from casual bloviation in an optimal manner).
Thanks and sympathies to all those sharing their hard yards. I just__ wanted to say I’m one of many reading them, wishing you all well, and I hope that knowing that helps in some way.
No, there is nothing else unusual. I asked him years ago why the volume needs to be odd. He said he has been doing it all his life and no other reason why.
I love this, nice one. Since adopting a shelter puppy recently, i have seen so much more goodness around me. Having a pet, and walking him 2 or 3 hours per day, has upped the quality of my everyday interactions with strangers by multitudes. Not to mention the love I get from this adorable baby himself. But yes, random acts of kindness do so much. If we all did one every day, imagine what a great world we'd be living in.
I feel you Mike, my mother is going through the same thing with her partner, whose dementia is getting worse by the month. Very tough disease to deal with. Soon it will reach the point where he no longer knows who she is.... That's when it will get really hard.
I'd look into a diagnosis of fibromyalgia for this. If you do have this, antidepressants like Zoloft can do amazing things for your pain and stiffness.
Jesus. That's a hard story to hear and my heart goes out to you. About addictive tendencies, I don't know if you have ever watched the 'Soft White Underbelly' youtube channel. This more than anything has made me feel compassion for the addicts, insane, homeless, pimps, prostitutes and tricks, and all the other people that are barely functioning on the margins of society. I sometimes feel uncomfortable with the interviewer's style, but overall these show that everyone has their story. What blows my mind is how likeable and self aware most of them are.
This also reminds me of something I read in Graeber's Dawn of Everything. When the white man came to America, preaching his supposed enlightenment, Native Americans were appalled that a society presenting itself as far superior to theirs would tolerate things such as homelessness. In fact, the book argues that Native American thought was instrumental in shaping European Enlightenment thinking.
We've lost our way.... This is for sure. Mental illness is a very rare phenomenon in all traditional cultures. How to find the way back to sanity, as a society, is a huge question with no easy answers.
McD: FWIW, it is common for ADHDers (especially the impulsive sub-type) to exhibit this sort of thing...it exhibits itself on a smaller scale than OCD. There may be some similar brain chemistry involved. Some things (and it can be unpredictable and changing) can give one a sense of order or harmony that is unique to the person for reasons that might not make sense to someone else.
ADHD can be pretty confusing in its presentation...it can result in impulses being acted on that everyone has.
Even professionals get confused by it. Our son spend a few years when he was in primary school seeing a psychologist because he was acting out in school. There was improvement for a while and then it got worse again. When the psychologist finally saw him in a dysregulated state, she was like: "this is brain chemistry, we need to figure out what that's about." That set us on a path that led to learning about ADHD (about which I was initially skeptical ... because people of my generation were led to believe it was a bogus diagnosis).
Thank you for your kind words @Gavinski. Over the last 16 years I have learned far more about addiction and mental illness than I ever expected to. I’ve spoken with psychiatrist and done research to try and help, but also to cope. As angry as I get with the aftermath of my wife’s manic episodes I know this isn’t something she chose for herself.
Ironically I was never diagnosed as a kid (and only got tested and diagnosed when I was 51) but was also skeptical about it. What I had some doubts about in kids was actually something I was diagnosed with myself.
Fortunately I had developed a number of coping strategies throughout my life without realizing it, but the diagnosis gave me a whole new perspective on what kids might be going through, as it made me realize that my way of thinking and doing things wasn't particularly typical of what most people do. Until I discussed it with people I honestly had no clue how wildly different some of my thought processes are from other people.
Man, I'm in tears reading this... once again I am taught the lesson of you never know what is going on in someone else's life! I am sooooooo so sorry for what some of you or all of us are going through. I too have had the same experiences as some. My depression seemed to get a bit better but its back. Prayers to all of us. hopefully this too shall pass.
Charlie
So much courage shown in this thread. My heart goes out to all who've shared their challenges.
I have "alcoholics" (in AA parlance, I use quotes because alcohol was not always the drug of choice), folks affected by alcoholism, and significant mental health issues in my immediate family. So I can certainly relate to what's been shared here. As many have already shared, coping and attempting to thrive is a daily task for everyone and there are many ups and downs.
While I don't post often, I feel like a fair number of my posts have been to comment on what a special place this is.
Thanks @McD for creating this space.
Meekly raises hand.
I just went through a three-year stint of being a full-time caregiver for my wife, who has Alzheimer's. We recently moved her to a memory care residence, as it became impossible to keep her at home.
It's the 24/7ness of the situation that gets to you. I imagine it's like going to war or being in prison, as it would be hard to wrap your head around, unless you've been through it. When you're in the middle of it, you just want it to end. It takes over your life.
Having a creative hobby helps.