What do I do in this situation?
What do I do when my wife considers our bathroom her house. I can't take a shower in there cause she get's upset with me. That's her place and her mother don't want me there. When I did take a shower ,she would take all the bed spreads off and throw them on the floor in the bathroom. She will start banging on the walls screaming at me. I moved my stuff into the smaller bathroom but the only problem is, that one is shared by our two sons. Right now they are not here but will return the end of next week. She does not take a bath or wash her hair. I try to do these for her, when she lets me. She calls me every name in the book and threatens to kill me. I also have been knocked down and punched. The worst part of the day is morning. I know it's not her and it gets to be hard on me sometimes.
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Delusions can often be helped with medication. Contact her provider and ask for her medications to be adjusted. Alternatively you might consider placement—it's not healthy for either of you to be in a place where she's threatening and attacking you. Now is the time to begin visiting some facilities. Even if you plan to keep her home, you need a Plan B in case you are not able to care for her.
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By all means check with her dr. for meds that may calm her, but the first consideration is actually your safety. She has already knocked you down. Much as we all want to keep our LOs home there are circumstances where that just is not possible. One of those circumstances is the safety not just of the patient but the safety of others.
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This is new to me. What facilities should I be looking at?
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