gcvmom
Here we go again!
diagnosis'd or not, starts acting this way:
short tempered
irritable
hypersensitive (ranting on about perceived "slights"; overreacting; taking everything personally; no sense of humor)
hypercritical (demanding to know "why did you do it this way?" or "why can't you just do it the way I told you?")
emotionally reactive (yelling or raising voice considerably in response to normal situations instead of conversing in a normal voice)
provocative (seeming to be driven to escalate situations instead of letting things go -- almost perseverating...)
Is this depression? Is this manic irritability?
husband has bee like this since he got home tonight. He admitted to feeling edgy when I asked him if he was o.k. because he just looked like he was uptight.
He had picked difficult child 2 up from basketball practice and took him out to dinner. Then came home and changed clothes so he could work on a small project (covering up the roof of the coop since it's supposed to rain tonight) that would have only taken about 30 minutes to finish, but he got sidetracked looking for some supplies so it took about an hour. Then after he fixed the roof he set to work trying to get a TV remote working, but ran into some trouble with the cable channels not being set up right. His frustration tolerance must have been very low, because a short time later he started firing questions at me about Thanksgiving, not really giving me a chance to answer, and then lobbed an emotional grenade angrily accusing me of not telling him anything about what was planned for Thanksgiving. This all kind of mushroomed out of the blue.
And then he mutters something about of course he's short tempered because of the changes in his medications (he's off Paxil completely, off Lamictal, and now on just Trileptal). I emailed him last week at work to tell him he really needs to call the psychiatrist to ask about something to help with this irritability, short temper and lack of patience, and at the time he was very open to the suggestion and said he'd give him a call this week.
I don't think husband would get a diagnosis of BiPolar (BP), but I do think cyclothymia is a possibility -- sort of a mild BiPolar (BP) if you will.
I just let his ranting wash over me and kept thinking that this man is really struggling right now -- it's amazing how much calmer I can be when I realize this is his illness talking.
But dang, it sure is exasperating to realize he's essentially back at square one after having come so far this summer. I hope he makes that appointment soon...
short tempered
irritable
hypersensitive (ranting on about perceived "slights"; overreacting; taking everything personally; no sense of humor)
hypercritical (demanding to know "why did you do it this way?" or "why can't you just do it the way I told you?")
emotionally reactive (yelling or raising voice considerably in response to normal situations instead of conversing in a normal voice)
provocative (seeming to be driven to escalate situations instead of letting things go -- almost perseverating...)
Is this depression? Is this manic irritability?
husband has bee like this since he got home tonight. He admitted to feeling edgy when I asked him if he was o.k. because he just looked like he was uptight.
He had picked difficult child 2 up from basketball practice and took him out to dinner. Then came home and changed clothes so he could work on a small project (covering up the roof of the coop since it's supposed to rain tonight) that would have only taken about 30 minutes to finish, but he got sidetracked looking for some supplies so it took about an hour. Then after he fixed the roof he set to work trying to get a TV remote working, but ran into some trouble with the cable channels not being set up right. His frustration tolerance must have been very low, because a short time later he started firing questions at me about Thanksgiving, not really giving me a chance to answer, and then lobbed an emotional grenade angrily accusing me of not telling him anything about what was planned for Thanksgiving. This all kind of mushroomed out of the blue.
And then he mutters something about of course he's short tempered because of the changes in his medications (he's off Paxil completely, off Lamictal, and now on just Trileptal). I emailed him last week at work to tell him he really needs to call the psychiatrist to ask about something to help with this irritability, short temper and lack of patience, and at the time he was very open to the suggestion and said he'd give him a call this week.
I don't think husband would get a diagnosis of BiPolar (BP), but I do think cyclothymia is a possibility -- sort of a mild BiPolar (BP) if you will.
I just let his ranting wash over me and kept thinking that this man is really struggling right now -- it's amazing how much calmer I can be when I realize this is his illness talking.
But dang, it sure is exasperating to realize he's essentially back at square one after having come so far this summer. I hope he makes that appointment soon...