Greetings
It's going on 5 years now since my x husband threw me to the curb. I was pretty sick at the time... just recently diagnosed with Bipolar disirder and on 7 different meds. Not knowing up from down.
He couldn''t accept my illness, or me being on meds. It was tough being with that first doctor. He was a perdiatrician, not a physciatrist.
Since I was way over medicated I signed papers I shouldnt have and lost everything, including custody of my 2 daughters who are now 15 and 18.
It's such a long story. I am now stabilized and just take 2 medications, but am on dissability. I turn to Jesus all the time in my pain... mainly my broken heart of the lost years of being with my girls.
Even though I visit with them, talk on the phone and MSN.... it's not the same.
I avoided taking the X to court because I was afraid of how it would effect the children. But my oldest no longer lives with him, and my youngest is now mature enough to see things for what they are and thinks that I should go to court.
I am approved for legal aid, and I did work very hard for 15 years not only raising my girls in the knowledge and love of the Lord, but contributing financially as well. I know everything happens in God's perfect timing... so I will be seeking out some legal advice week. Another Mothers Day has passed and the X wouldnt provide transportation for the girls to come for a visit.
Will see what doors shall open. It has been too many long years and too many tears.
I am writing a book now "Sickness or Sin -Coming Out of The Closet With Your Mental Illness" and it has been very therapeutic. It took years and years to get help for my illness because my church and fellowship groups, along with my husband, simply believed Bipolar Disorder was demonic, or was the result of sin in ones life, or due to lack of faith ect.
I know this stigma is changing, yet I believe God wants to take what Satan intended for evil through my illness and use it for good by educating others, and am very blessed to have found this site that has a Bipolar Forum as well as so many other edifying ones as well
Love~E
It's going on 5 years now since my x husband threw me to the curb. I was pretty sick at the time... just recently diagnosed with Bipolar disirder and on 7 different meds. Not knowing up from down.
He couldn''t accept my illness, or me being on meds. It was tough being with that first doctor. He was a perdiatrician, not a physciatrist.
Since I was way over medicated I signed papers I shouldnt have and lost everything, including custody of my 2 daughters who are now 15 and 18.
It's such a long story. I am now stabilized and just take 2 medications, but am on dissability. I turn to Jesus all the time in my pain... mainly my broken heart of the lost years of being with my girls.
Even though I visit with them, talk on the phone and MSN.... it's not the same.
I avoided taking the X to court because I was afraid of how it would effect the children. But my oldest no longer lives with him, and my youngest is now mature enough to see things for what they are and thinks that I should go to court.
I am approved for legal aid, and I did work very hard for 15 years not only raising my girls in the knowledge and love of the Lord, but contributing financially as well. I know everything happens in God's perfect timing... so I will be seeking out some legal advice week. Another Mothers Day has passed and the X wouldnt provide transportation for the girls to come for a visit.
Will see what doors shall open. It has been too many long years and too many tears.
I am writing a book now "Sickness or Sin -Coming Out of The Closet With Your Mental Illness" and it has been very therapeutic. It took years and years to get help for my illness because my church and fellowship groups, along with my husband, simply believed Bipolar Disorder was demonic, or was the result of sin in ones life, or due to lack of faith ect.
I know this stigma is changing, yet I believe God wants to take what Satan intended for evil through my illness and use it for good by educating others, and am very blessed to have found this site that has a Bipolar Forum as well as so many other edifying ones as well
Love~E
