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B e a r i n g Witness

Stories of supporting my husband through mental illness

I'm just here to say: I see you. Supporting a loved one through mental illness is hard and lonely. I hope you feel less alone through reading our story.

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Goodbye Florida, Hello Colorado

It was finally time to leave Florida behind. We were trading the beach for the mountains, the humidity for dryness, and sea level for...

Christmas 2019

I was starting to see hope with Nick's video game addiction. Graduation had gone well and he had finally realized and admitted that video...

Graduation Part II: Reality

When we showed up to the graduation venue, Nick was on edge. I could feel it. I was still worried, but as we got inside and started to...

Graduation Part I: Worries

It was finally time to graduate. Nearly three and a half years of hard work and dedication were coming to a close. We had taken all 5...

Skydiving For My Mental Health

When Nick was hospitalized, I was already in therapy. I was also knee-deep into Brené Brown's work on vulnerability. I had just finished...

Nick Wanted a Divorce

Shortly after Nick's video game addiction started, we started fighting daily. I was quick to point out that the amount of time he spent...

Silence

I have mentioned that I didn't tell friends and family what was going on with Nick in the early stages. There's a handful of reasons for...

Hospitalization: Part 2

So we Baker Acted Nick. I got a call from him about an hour after the police drove off with him. He was screaming at me. "I can't believe...

Hospitalization: Part 1

We got married on February 1st, 2019. If I haven't mentioned it yet, I'm Canadian. All of my family is in Canada. I met Nick at an...

Video Game Addiction

Nick started to realize that the only time he wouldn't be thinking about his OCD was when he was playing video games. He came home one...

Early Behavior Changes

Prior to Nick's tinnitus and OCD onset, he was the type of person to get up at 4:00am to go to the gym, somehow be energetic all day, be...

Somatic OCD

Once Nick had started Googling his symptoms, he eventually came across the diagnosis of somatic OCD: the hyperfocus on neutral physical...

OCD Onset

In the summer of 2019, Nick developed tinnitus. He's been to countless music festivals and never really used proper ear protection. The...

Expanding the Conversation

Supporting my husband through mental illness was, by far, the hardest thing I've ever done. I'll get more into some specifics of his...

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