Posted by Non Heroe on December 17, 2006, at 12:46:37
In reply to Re: My Wife-To-Be and Me » Non Heroe, posted by Phillipa on December 16, 2006, at 19:01:30
Thank you for your response.
I was actually INCORRECT when I said the she is not experiencing any symptoms, although they are currently diminished.
She talks to me about suicide occassionally. She is currently in Europe, living with her family, and I am flying to be with her and her family for 1 week in mid January. While she is there we talk via Messenger.
For example, she said to me at one point yesterday, "What do you (meaning me) say to a person who is talking about committing suicide?"
I gave her my answer and she acknowledged what I said to her. Also, her ex-husband FORCIBLY hospitalized her, twice (this occurred in 1999 and in 2001). This is, primarily, what makes her so sensitive to the psychiatric industry.
And, this what prompts her to say to me over and over, "You won't MAKE me go into the hospital will you?" And, "You won't FORCE me to take psychiatric medications, will you?"
To both questions I always say, "no."
Nevertheless, I can say from first hand experience that she HAS been "psychotic" in my presence, and more than once, and in the PAST. She is NOT currently so. Instances included the following:
1. her trying to take control of the steering wheel while I was driving. She rationalized this by saying to me "SHE was being followed and (she) was trying to escape." I not could not only have killed the both of us had she succeeded, I might have been responsible for the injury or the deaths of others had she succeeded.
2.her peekiing out the blinds of our front window "to keep watch" on those who had been following her
2. She thought that my ex-wife of 11 years was in love with me and that she was trying to break the relationship up between myself and my fiance. The truth is that I've had NO contact with my ex wife for more than 8 years.
3. She "knew" that I had been trying to "poison" her food, so she woke up one night at about 3:10 in the morning and walked and walked. I was worried that if I went to look for her that she would accusse me of trying to follow her. She returned at 9:20 in the morning.
4. Shortly after this she took cash advances from her credit cards in order to afford a flight home to her parents. She did this, again, because she "knew" I had been poisoning her.
5. And I could go and on.
But, about 1 month after she returned to her parents, and after they "forced" her to see a psychiatrist and she was put on Zyprexa her symptoms abated. However, as I say, she has not been on psychiatric medications for months now.
The chances of a person who has had prior episodes of experiencing psychosis having future episodes are excellent. And this is precisely what I fear. In fact, I have to say, it won't surprise me at all if this occurrs, if she continues to refuse any treatment at all.
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