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Hello. We would be happy to help. This is a judgment free place with alot of great people more than happy to help. We lend a helping hand and provide great advice with love and compassion. Of you don' mind me asking .. what is your wife's mental illness? I have bipolar disorder.

The fact that there is no explanation for her disorder tells me that she may have bipolar depression. Bipolar depression is 1 of the hardest things to diagnose because of the complex of symptoms it has..and yes..social anxiety and panic attacks are all apart of the whole experience. The 1 thing your wife needs to do (as hard as it is) is to try to look at the beauty of the world. Believe me. ..I know from personal experience that this is tough. I had to ignore symptoms and try to move on with my life. Now I hold a full time job and although I still have my problems. ..I know how to better cope. Your wife needs to realize that this is a mental illness and it requires exceptance. Some treatments aren' t right for a person either. Talk to her doctor about better treatment options. I ..in fact ..am treatment resistant so I can' really testify on the effectiveness of anti depressants and anti anxiety medications. Tell your wife not to lose hope because it can get better..I am living proof. I know what she's going through right now..I suffered for 13 years before they figured me out. I started suffering at the age of 17 and didn't' get an official diagnosis until 30. Tell her that they will figure this out. The reason for most mental illnesses is unknown and it's not that she has been diagnosed with all of these mental illnesses it's that they are doing the process of elimination. It's really hard to go through that and it is so damn frustrating that they can't' give you a straight answer at first but,believe me when I say that her answers are coming. It just takes patients. Please encourage her to join and talk with us.
Best of luck.
Concernedgal.

Hello Nick. You and Ashley are so very welcome here. I am sorry that Ashley is suffering. You have found the best place in cyberspace for any kind of anxiety or depressive disorder. We are like a family here. Even when I'm feeling great I love to come on here because the support is wonderful. The people on here have become like my family offering support and love when I need it most. I have gained so much strength from this forum. Please relay this to your wife and I hope to meet her soon.

Ashley Martin said:

That's sort of the problem we don't know what exactly all of her issues are. We've been diagnosed several different things by several different doctors, with several different medications and nothing has worked. She's been diagnosed with severe depression, social anxiety issues, borderline bipolarism, general anxiety Etc. She hates her medications makes her feel like she's a zombie. But anytime she goes without it she has massive emotional outbreaks. She says it's like when she takes the medicine it makes her feel nothing but when she doesn't take it she feels everything there's no middle ground whatsoever. Medicine does very well for the anxiety the driving meeting new people and all of that. But the emotional stuff we can't find anything to help with that at all. All of her doctors just tell her to meditate or find an anchor which the term anchor she really really hates. And as the husband I can feel completely helpless because I have no idea how to help deal with any of these sort of problems. She feels like she's unable to get the way she feels across to any of the doctors or the therapist that she has went to see. The medication she wants it to get her to a baseline so that maybe she can take it from there and be able to get inside of her own head when she has frustrating moments I'm just trying to explain even what her illness is and you know be able to self soothe herself in a way. So that's what we're trying to to get is a little help to try and find a way to to cope and deal.

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Hi. Nice to meet both of you. If you don't mind me asking how old are you both and how long have you been married?

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Hi Nick. How are things going with you and Ashley?