Knifey wrote:
i am an AS male with anxiety/depression issues and i've spent all weekend in hospital because my NT wife has PPD and BPD and PTSD and we let it get out of hand. Now she is better but needs me to be there for her and i can't be. She is starting medication but i'm not. She has driven me so mental in the weeks before she went into hospital now i am a wreck. I feel like i shouldn't have to go on medication as anybody would feel the way i do if they had to put up with the abuse i suffered from her in the last few weeks. Maybe I should go on it just so i can cope with her until she gets established. I wish i could skip this part of my life, not that i'll remember much anyway.
It seems that your primary concern is whether you should be taking medication, but what's unclear to me is if you've been prescribed something. Also, you state that you were in hospital (I'm American; does that mean "admitted into the hospital" or "inside the hospital building" in this context?) because your wife was suffering from several issues. Was she hospitalized?
When I was growing up I saw my brother's life profoundly altered by incorrectly prescribed medication, and certainly there is reason to be cautious, but simultaneously one should be mindful of the usefulness of drugs as well. If you're "a wreck," it seems logical to consider medication, regardless of the reason for the wreckage (but that depends on what you mean by wreck; to me, it means you're flat out unable to function).
22 Aug 2011, 10:04 am
