Your Hardest Family Question: My husband’s mental illness is causing me to break down
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JenniferJune 5, 2019
My former husband's mental illness destroyed our marriage. Even 40 years later I am still trying to recover. My best wishes to you. It would help if Church leaders actually recognized the real effects of the kind of serious mental illnesses that cause people to lose touch with reality. Their goto response in my life was to blame the wife, then excommunicated the husband. When it all happened again in the second and third marriages, they used him as an object lesson in talks about the slippery slope of sin. May God forgive them. Me, I just pray for a separate section in Heaven where no priesthood leaders are ever allowed to enter. Maybe there I will have peace.
DLMay 26, 2019
My heart aches for you. I too have been in a long marriage (38 years) with a husband who has mental health issues. I pray for your heart to have peace and joy and healing. My prayers are with you.
Michael HogganMay 25, 2019
Her husband is in desparate need of professional treatment and, most likely, extensive psychiatric hospitalization. His actions have gone too far and are indicative of an underlying problem. I say this as a pschizoaffective. I don't know if the VA covers dishonorable discharges, but I'd bet the farm that his mental illness was a factor in his discharge.
George ThompsonMay 24, 2019
Get him to play the computer game TETRUS. it will help him sort his feeling out. It is most helpfull right after a trama event but it can't hurt at a later time.
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