You will definitely find support here, at least for the BP, if not for the rest. My son also has ADHD, but he’s 15 now. Stacy has a blog for parents of children with BP–you can find her blog on the bipolarcentral.com main page.

As for insight on dealing with your husband’s BP, I cannot recommend anything higher than Dave’s course for BP supporters for you and/or his course for BP survivors for your husband. You will find everything you need to know in that. If you both follow everything (to the letter) that he tells you to do, you will do ok. Well, at least better than I did, anyway.

My life was a wreck by the time I was diagnosed, and I spent the next 2 years in BP hell! I only wish I had Dave’s course to help me back then. It would have saved me so much pain and misery. Believe me, it is worth every single penny. I really, really suffered for those 2 years, between the medication merry-go-round, in and out of episodes, not understanding what was happening to me, the financial devastation, in and out of the institution, losing my job, stressful family issues, etc. Dave teaches you how to avoid all that. Ok, enough of the commercial!

As for support, you will find that here. My grandmother had BP, my mother has it, I have it, my 15 year old son has it, my brother has it, and my sister had it, but she committed suicide while in a BP manic episode this past April. Yes, I know it’s scary, and your husband is very wise to be “worried about how to deal with this”, because the statistics are that 20% of those diagnosed with BP WILL commit suicide. Not maybe. They WILL. Just like my sister did. BUT, and this is a big BUT, almost to a person it is because they went off their medications. You will find me to be adament in my posts and articles about that point. I do not want anyone to go through what I am going through with the loss of my sister, who I call the twin of my heart. Especially since it was so unnecessary, if she had only stayed on her meds. Read my articles, and you’ll see.

Anyway, welcome to both you and your husband, and please come back often. Take advantage of the website at bipolarcentral.com. Become a subscriber right now, and begin to receive Dave’s free online mini-course and you’ll get immediate help. You’ll also get immediate help from reading the articles posted there–just click on articles/stories. You can read mine from clicking on the area here on my blog or choose Michele Soloway’s Corner from the articles/stories section at the main page. You can also go to Dave’s blog for supporter and Stacy’s blog for parent by clicking on blogs at the website main page. You can also get immediate help by reading my past posts on here and other people’s comments.

The main thing I will tell you is what I tell everyone on here. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. You and your husband both will find out that, although you feel overwhelmed right now, and maybe feel like you are the only people going through what you are going through, you are not. We have been there, and we know how you feel. We will help you through this, as we help each other through sharing our experience, strength, and hope.

Michele