Her Husband Thinks He’s Sick Even Though Multiple Doctors Have Told Him He’s Not, And It’s Destroying Their Lives
For a decade now, this 35-year-old woman and her 31-year-old husband have been together, and they got married six years ago.
Her husband has been diagnosed with OCD, and around eight months ago, her husband started thinking that he has ALS.
It’s all in his mind, though, as multiple doctors have told him he is not sick and that there is absolutely nothing wrong with him.
“He’s spent thousands of dollars on ER visits, seen multiple doctors and a neurologist who have all said he doesn’t have it, he doesn’t have any symptoms of ALS, etc.,” she explained.
“But it’s all he talks about, all he thinks about, all day every day for the last 8 months. He goes to therapy once a week, and he’s been on medication for his OCD since he was like 8-years-old.”
“He recently switched to a new medication, which seemed like it was helping, but now he’s back to the same.”
She’s still doing her best to act like everything is fine and keep their home life a positive environment for their two children, but her husband manages to make everything dark and gloomy.
He is completely convinced that he is sick and nobody can change his mind.
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Earlier this evening, she and her husband went out to dinner, and he was just looking at his phone and ignoring her.
She attempted to talk to him a couple of times, but he got mad. Eventually, she questioned her husband about why he no longer likes her.
“He said he does like me, but he hates being alive and hates everything in life,” she added. “He said he hates even trying to talk to me because all he wants to talk about is ALS, and he knows I’m tired of hearing about it and having the same conversation about it.”
“He said nothing in life brings him joy except our son, but that thinking of our son makes him sad because he knows he’s going to be dead in a year due to ALS.”
She had no response because how do you begin to address all of that? She’s managed to survive living with her husband so far, but she doesn’t think she’s capable of remaining married to him for much longer.
Her husband’s insistence on being sick when he’s not is destroying their lives: there’s no way around it.
She can no longer ignore that her husband isn’t going to change and start believing in medical professionals.
“I don’t know if this marriage is even worth saving because, at this point, I feel like I’ve lost all love for him, and he’s not even the same person he was 8 months ago,” she continued.
“I keep hoping he’ll snap out of it, but even then, I don’t know if I can ever go back to how we were. And it wasn’t all that great to begin with, anyway.”
“So my question is, do I keep trying to stick this out and help him through this, or do I focus on myself and my kids?”
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