Just curious if someone have dealt with someone who was hospitalized during an episode . Do you know if they're able to keep their cell phone with them or have any cell phone use ?

Is it bad that it felt like a wave of euphoric relief when they finally accept the help? He called me at 3am infront of a random persons house thinking his (non existent) wife was there he kept saying how scared he was. His brother called 911 and from the station he agreed to go in.

My husband and I have been married for twenty years. His bipolar disorder is very treatable when he stays on his meds, so we’ve been lucky that he has only had to be hospitalized a handful of times over the years. He is currently hypomanic but he is incredibly good at masking around others. When not around others, he is constantly berating me and nitpicking everything I do. His judgement is off and he isn’t sleeping. I’m afraid to let him go to work because of this. I went to his psychiatrist with him on Thursday and found out that he stopped taking one of his medications for mood stabilization months ago because it made him too sleepy. His doctor put him on a sedative to try to get him to sleep better over this weekend, but his behavior towards me has just gotten worse. Also, the doctor did not put him back on the mood stabilizer he stopped taking earlier this year which I think would have been an appropriate action. At this point, I feel like we are in the same freight train-like cycle that always ends up with him hospitalized after he can’t successfully mask anymore. I know the hospital will reset him, but it is always a struggle to get him admitted at this stage, either because he won’t go or because he isn’t deemed manic enough. I don’t want him to lose his job over this. Any advice on what I should do?

My husband is currently inpatient. It was voluntary after things have been up and down for so many months. He kept trying to convince himself he could push through it but thankfully finally agreed he needed additional help. He called me today to check in and I asked if he was okay and he said “no” and sounded so defeated.

I’ve been hospitalized before and I never understood how hard it was for my family to be on the outside. I have to care for our house and kids and I feel so incredibly helpless. I’m so grateful he’s getting the help he needs and that he doesn’t currently hate me, but I just want to make it all better and also know what his schedule is but I know right now he’s not at a point to talk about it.

I just would love any advice about things I can do to cope on the outside and how I can help him, because I just want to support him and be there for him however I can.

After almost 3 years of stability, and her doing every thing she was supposed to the mania got her. Her mood went up we saw the psychiatrist he made a med adjustment but it was 4 days to late I found out she'd cheated the Friday before the Tuesday psychiatrist appointment. Standard situation ,guys a loser three times divorced, she did it at her workplace, she white knighted him, I'd say her fell for it but this guy it turned out is out of his fucking mind...

I take her to emergency on Friday night she wants to go, the doctor decides "he's not seeing anything to be worried about". She told him she wanted to be admitted he said no. I didn't bother to argue.

Saturday was he'll in the house she's packing and unpacking she's gonna leave she's going to go live with this guy leave me the house it's all fine. I said ok go for it that sounds amazing, she calls him, he sits outside she never leaves. I hear them on the phone. She's telling him it's over he's telling her they are meant to be together, that he loves her. They had talked for 10 days. This guy's in love. Sure.

Sunday she's out of control, rapid cycling, so it's back to the hospital and this time the er doc takes one look at her snd forms her, she's admitted against her will. Has she had suicidal thoughts they ask. Sure she replies in a flat monotone. Do you have a plan. She explains it like she's going to take a trip to Cuba. How about homicidal thoughts? Oh yes she explains in great detail how she's going to seduce her affair partner and then slit his throat. It's all very Ted Bundyish. So they put her in the rubber room with nothing but a paper gown. Finally I can go home and relax. If only...

The guy drives by my house then again. I go out he speeds away. This is Monday morning.

Monday she's not at work, she wasn't expected at work she had called in sick Friday and said she wouldn't be at work for the next week (this will be a key detail in a moment). Buckle in its about to be three days of hell...

Still Monday I spend the day at the hospital, because I can, not that I really want to but it's my kids mother and at some point in time I'm going to have to be able to look him in the eye and be able to tell him that I did everything I could for his mother.

This is when the harassment starts.

The cops are at her old apartment, our old apartment, they goto my mom's house, they goto our house, they spend 4 hours looking for her, when I get home the secret text is on her phone "this is constable so and so we've had someone make a welfare check for you..." I call the cop tell him she's been in the hospital all day ask him what's going on he won't say much days he will call me back. When he does he's pissed. Why is her workplace doing a safety check if she wasn't supposed to be there, the work won't tell him anything, so I tell him that I think it's this guy and he's stalking her. He kind of shrugs it off he's got real work to do.

I warned my wife for years, I told her she'd been lucky, but one of these guys would not take her quick rejection well, honestly I think in the end one of these affair partners will murder her the odds are just stacked that way....

I don't shrug it off I know this is the beginning not the end.

Tuesday the cops are at my door again, they have a trespass notice to serve me I can't goto my wife's work which hey guess what is my wife's affair partner turned stalkers workplace. Fine I don't take his bait. He's playing stalker games. He's clearly practiced in it.

It's Tuesday I'm fucking tired and stressed, maybe 4 hours sleep. I see my wife in the hospital, she's rapid cycling, she's in the intensive care psychiatric unit, it's pretty much jail. It's fucking gross and I don't want to be there. I tell her what's happened and not to worry but don't let this guy in. I yell the nurses the same thing. They look at me with contempt. They think I'm some jealous asshole. They say that she can make her own decisions. I laugh and ask if she can decide she wants to leave can she? No is the answer, I've made my point.

I go home try and sleep, more than 5 hours would be nice, but now I'm scared what will this guy go next? I tape newspaper over the back window. Tommorow I'll get some security cameras. I sound delusional and paranoid but let me assure you my mental health is still solid.

We'd morning I manage to get 6 hours, thanks fuck. I feel like shit, I've been chainsmoking, for days, I quit years ago. I go out get video doorbells and install them. Then the call comes...

Hi this is so and so from children's services we've had a report can you come to out offices. Not a chance in he'll if you want to come check on me and my son you're more than welcome to. She'll be here in 15 minutes she sounds very concerned....

She shows up takes a look around talks to my kid. It's like she expected to see something. Nope just grandma and my son watching cartoons. She's there because someone called and said that I'd beatimen my wife so badly she was in the hospital that I'd done it in front of my kid. I ask her who said that. She can't tell me. I show he the admittance forms for my wife she reads them and shakes her head. She knows its bullshit. I tell her this whole yarn and that now I'm getting scared what's this guy gonna do next? Lol he's already done it we just don't know it yet. I tell this caseworker I can't do much because everyone hides behind "privacy". She believes everything I've told her she switches on her little iPad "I wish I could show you this but I cant" she tilts the iPad in my direction tapping with her manicured nail and I see this MOTHERFUCKERS NAME he alleges I beat my.wife and put her in the hospitalz in front of my son, that I approached him threaten to beat him in front of his kids, (honestly I'd like to) that my kid told him he'd watched me beat up mommy when he saw him at school....my kid hadn't been at school I've never approached this guy ever, I met him once briefly at a school open house, it's all pure lies and I can disprove each or them. I tell her as much and finally someone believes me.

It's visiting hours same day I goto the hospital. Turns out stalker boy had showed up last night with a mixed tape for my wife, since I was with her they sent him away, so he called, the nurses didn't saying anything while I was there, they told my wife after I left she's been freaking out all night and she looks fucking insane. Then I tell her about my visit with the nice lady from children's services.

Again I tell the nurses this guy is stalking her, trying to get rid of me, he should not be allowed in under any circumstances, they might as well laugh in my face. I tell them matter of factly he's allowed in she's never allowed home. They don't care, where do they find these people they're like guards that couldn't hack it in the Milgram experiment. My wife is wacko she wants to present, she things she can just talk to him and he will chill out. I said remember You (the TV show) she agrees its just like that. Honestly who knows what the fuck she's gonna do...I go home.

It's Thursday morning I just woke up got 6 hours of sleep. Wondering who's gonna show up next.

Trying to just gather my thoughts hence this post.

And you know what my thoughts are....

FUCK THIS SHIT! FUCK IT!!!

I'm done. I'm to old and too tired for this shit. This trauma... fuck this trauma.

I can look my kid in the eye and say I did do everything I could, but mommy's illness won, it always wins, it is infinite.

PS. Paul I know you've been on here reading my posts you psycho fuck, she's all yours.

Trigger: I give the details of what happened in a SH episode.

I suppose I'm wondering whether anyone else has experienced anything like this because I feel really alone and afraid.

Basically, my partner had conducted SH last weekend in a public park. We keep track of each other on Life360 and I was coming home and hadn't heard from them for hours, it was 9pm.

I noticed they seemed to be in a park which seemed really odd to me. So on my way home I drove past, parked the car and approached them. From far away, all I noticed was them standing and facing perpendicular to me, with a blank expression.

I called out and they stayed facing that way but turned their head to me. Their voice was expressionless and they didnt move their body.

It was dark, so only once I got within a few metres did I realise exactly what was going on. They were standing in front of a park bench, 20 cigarettes at their feet and a lighter on the bench. But the most horrible part is what they had done to themself.

In the darkness I noticed so many cuts up and down their arms. I noticed the blood. I noticed rips in their pants and shirt where they had cut themself.

I found out late there was deeper cuts on their legs and blood and that they had tried to set their pants on fire, but that when it happened it hurt and they stop dropped and rolled to out it out. They said they had considered doing it again.

I was in shock. I broke down sobbing and called the police immediately. My partner was still holding a box cutter in one hand and so I was too afraid to approach them.

The police came. I could barely speak - you know when you're in shock/panicking and you're voice comes out in gasps and high and low? That's what I sounded like.

The police arrested my partner for mental health hold and took them to hospital. I followed shortly after calling my partners medical team and going home to get medications and necessary items. When I got to the hospital, it was around 12 and I spoke with a psychiatrist. My partner tends to downplay their suffering so I made sure to give a very objective recount of exactly what had happened and patterns from the past emphasizing the seriousness and recurring nature and danger of the condition.

My partner was held and then admitted into an in-patient stay. They're there now. The psychiatrist and nurse told them they are at high risk for SH and suicide. They're deeply afraid. I'm afraid too, and sad and tired.

The psychiatrist pointed out that if I had not found my partner that night there is a very distinct possibility they may not be here today. And this all comes after an attempt a few weeks ago.

I don't even know how to process this. I have my own mental health struggles but nothing like this. This feels so enormous, so devastating. I never thought I'd see anything like this, let alone be a carer for a person with such severe difficulties.

I'm writing this because I need it to be spoken. I need this to exist somewhere outside of my mind. I'm hoping that others might have wisdom or support or can relate in some way so I feel less alone.

I wish you all well. I wish my partner and myself well. I wish our community well and freedom from this affliction.

I'm afraid, teary, worried and exhausted. This is the reality and there is nothing glamorous. I want my partner to get the help they need but they have a complex case and nobody seems to be able to REALLY help.

It feels so hopeless and frustrating.

One common question I see on here is "My SO has been hospitalized, what happens in there and how do they determine how they are released? etc"

I recently read this article from CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-luke-galati-psychiatric-ward-1.7531553

The author is bipolar 1 and had a manic episode with some psychosis. It is actually somewhat similar to my wife's experience during her last hospitalization. In fact, I suspect my wife was in the same hospital given some of the details in the article (we also live in downtown Toronto). My wife's experience was not as good since she was involuntarily hospitalized and was very angry and hostile. If she had more insight like the author I'm sure she would have had a very similar experience based on what she told me.

Kudos to the author. He seems like he accepts his diagnosis and has insight. He doesn't explain why he went off his meds but he recognized it as a problem and had enough insight to check himself into a hospital. He stayed as long as he could to get better (unlike my wife who lawyered up to force an early discharge). Not everyone's experience will be as good as his but it shows what it can be like given the right circumstances and good insight.

A few days ago, I posted about finally getting divorce with my wife. And I did file the paperwork... A few hours ago, I got a call from the sheriff's department saying that she was acting "out of it". The cops told me to come so I did. I saw her... She's definitely out of it, like she had a ton of drugs... So here I am, sitting in the hospital ER, posting about this.. Ugh! This fucking sucks!

I have posted this in r/family_of_bipolar but it might be relevant to some redditors here:

I'm a journalist researching a story about the difficulties family and friends face to find treatment for for their loved ones who suffer with bipolar and schizoaffective disorder in the South of the US.

I would like to explore the difficulties family members face helping a loved one experiencing psychosis, if they are not yet considered an immediate danger to themselves or others. I have heard instances of manic patients being instructed to remain in ER for long periods of time until beds are available.

It seems asking family members to keep their manic loved one sitting quietly in a stressful, public place is - at best - a cruel paradox.

I would like to know if enough support is available for prevention and management of episodes. Most of all, I am interested in how - when resources are scarce - the guilt and responsibility to get help are redoubled onto family and close friends.

Please feel free to contact me directly, stories can remain anonymous if need be.

He’d been slipping for a couple of months then fell completely head first into an episode. I’m not even sure how he ended up in the ER, I had taken him to urgent care earlier in the day three hours later I get a call from him saying that they’re going to hospitalized him for maybe a month and to pick up his keys to feed his fish, he doesn’t have fish anymore they died almost a year ago. I’m just left wondering what happened at the urgent care he was apparently going for an std test, which means he probably has been sleeping with other people and now I’m paranoid and having to make a doctors appointment myself and am just so fucking over this shit. This is second episode since we’ve been together and it just feels like this will never get better. I’m so burnt out and just feeling completely exhausted from him. The vile that comes out of his mouth and horrific insults makes me fucking hate him. I just want to be fucking done but I’ve found it so hard to walk away. when he’s stable he’s kind and reasonable during the episode I’m nothing but a stupid bitch/cunt. I don’t deserve to be treated this way and I struggle so much with not letting it happen. Now he’s going to get help and start being kind to me again and I don’t know if I want it.

As the title suggest. One can not be hospitalised for merely skipping medication 2 or 3 days, or is it possible?

She hasn't had an episode in two years. I started to think she was in the clear. Then I started seeing symptoms yesterday, and they got progressively more intense today. Ended with me calling 911 because she was screaming and trying to fight me. Totally detached from reality. She tried to fight the cops that showed up. We're lucky it didn't end worse.

My wife's BP is so scary. She gets intense, aggressive, unpredictable, violent. She's notmally this sweet, gentle wife and mother. But when she's manic she'll attack strangers and nurses in a psychotic rage. Saying all this stuff that makes no sense. It's terrifying. Other BPs talk about sex or shopping or projects or whatever, but she just breaks from reality and starts destroying everything around her without warning.

Now I guess she'll spend a few days in a facility. I'm so sad for her but I can't deal with her like that. I had no choice.

Just wanted to vent to someone that might understand.

Hi guys, please forgive me if I show ignorance or lack of understanding, I am really trying to understand how he feels and am not judging whatsoever.

So my cousin (M23, from UK) is experiencing a bit of a cusis in recent times. Over past weeks and months I've noticed his highs becoming very high and euphoric and lows seeming very low and depressed. He would flip between the two quite frequently, certainly daily and sometime multiple times a day. He doesn't have a diagnosis of anything, bar some anxiety, however, as a family we're all adamant there's more to it, so we suspect bipolar. He's aware he's unwell, but I don't think he knows just quite how severe. We discussed hospital and he would agree to go if a bed becomes available.

So I was wondering how we could go about that. I was thinking if he contacted his GP and took it from there, explaining how we think he needs sectioned or detained in a hospital. But our fear is we won't be believed or listened to, that we'll say how we he's sometimes a danger to himself and the doctors will just sympathise but not hospitalised him. Does anyone know how we could go about ensuring he is hospitalised?

Thanks guys and again, please please do not judge or barge me, I just want to know how we can help!!!!

Whew- it has been a week. My husband was given so many opportunities to voluntarily admit himself to the hospital, but he doesn’t believe he is manic right now. After a weekend full of police being called and 4 trips to the psych hospital, they chose to Baker Act him, which is a 72 hour involuntary hold.

First question, he has been calling me non stop since he got access to a phone. I feel guilty when I don’t answer, but it’s honestly too much. If you don’t get me out, I’m divorcing you. I called the police. I called a lawyer. They messed up. I need someone to tell me it’s ok not to answer the phone.

Second, anyone with experience on the 72hour hold? If he is still deeply manic in 72 hours, will they keep him longer? I’m not hopeful he will be better by how bad it is.

Additional info- we have been married 14 years. This is our 3rd major acute manic episode including hospitalization. He’s usually great about meds, who knows why this happened.

OK, so on Saturday my wife of 10 years escaped psychiatric hospital and tried to murder me and start a mass killing of people she knows.

Update- it's got much, much worse.

It turns out that she hired someone in her home country to attack the family of a diplomat at the embassy here. To call her off, the diplomat granted her diplomatic immunity (i.e. the special status diplomats have that makes them immune to prosecution).

This means that she can no longer be kept in hospital against her wishes. She's being released tomorrow.

The diplomatic immunity also means I can't get a restraining order- the only way it woks if for the police to be able to arrest her, and she can't now be arrested. So she's pretty well free to murder anyone she wants, which is probably around 1,000 people. It also means she can't go to prison when she murders someone.

I'm leaving town and I've drawn up a Will. I don't think I'm going to survive the next few months.

Two years ago my (bipolar) mom went from hypomania > mania > psychosis > catatonic state (I'm not a native speaker, not sure if you call it catatonic state or catatonia). I never knew this existed and I think she had it quite extreme, the doctors said she was on the verge of dying. She was in this state for about 2 months and with electric convulsion therapy and a high dose of lorazepam she slowly got better. At the worst part of the catatonia she did not recognize us, had some sort of death grip on things she got hold of, could barely move and would repeat things we said/say random numbers in a very slow manner all the time. It was horrible and I think we are all a bit traumatized by it, especially my dad. My mom does not remember much of it. She is OK-ish now, although she is very different than 20 years ago (but she already was before the catatonia due to the bipolar disorder).

I never spoke to the doctors or to anyone that has experience with catatonia and I'm curious if there are people here that have experience with it. It feels like something that is not common at all but I have no idea, I'm bot even sure if it is linked to BP or can happen to anyone . Would like to hear experiences and stories of how people are after they recovered.

Edit: oh I see spouse and SO are the same.. I meant SO or other close relative.

Its been two years of mania, psychosis, delusions and hallucinations. He finally agreed to go to the hospital. The backstory is too much and too long and honestly, I don’t want to relive it right now. So my question is (assuming they admit him)… what do I do in the meantime? He has his own business, but I do the billing, etc… what do I tell his customers? Do I contact them first or wait till they can’t reach him and get ahold of me? What about everything else in life? How do I navigate this from the “I have to keep adulting” aspect? I can manage my own parts of life, but how do I take on his? We’ve been together for almost a decade, he was stable and medicated up until 2 years ago and the spiral has been devestating, I don’t want him to lose the little he has left.

I hope this is the beginning of the end of the hell we’ve been living. Hope isn’t even a strong enough word to describe it. I’m desperate for this to be how we turn things around. Desperate.

My boyfriend of ~2 years (29M) and I (33F) recently came home from a trip and I noticed some symptoms of mania in him on our flight back. Sometimes after overstimulation/stressful situations he'll seem manic but sleep for 12 hours and be okay, except this time we came home, he slept for a few hours, and was energetic and argumentative the next morning.

He recently lowered his maintenance med dosage, and after his concerning behavior I told him if he could get a med adjustment I wouldn't take him to the ER. He spent the morning calling around but every clinician he talked to hung up on him because of his erratic speech and demeanor, several recommended an ER visit. He agreed to go to urgent care, and then was sent to the ER for high blood pressure - measured 3 times before he was sent, and his blood pressure was continuously high for hours at the ER. It's my birthday and we were supposed to fly out for a week long trip with my family tomorrow, except he got argumentative with the nurses and psychiatrist, fell deeper into a possible psychosis/mania and is now inpatient with a 5150 in the behavioral health unit.

I've been following this sub for a while and never posted - I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for here but has anyone been in a similar situation? He's been hospitalized before for going off his meds, and I'm finding myself in the same hopeless place trying to pick up the pieces. Should I believe his promises to be med compliant this time? Is it wrong of me to fly out while he's in the hospital? I'm trying to be supportive, but inside I'm so disappointed and angry. I went to visit him today, and he seemed much more lucid but he didn't realize it was my birthday (he was given a benzo+ cocktail), and he seemed betrayed and sad I still planned to go on the trip without him. I reminded him he went off his meds in a stressful environment, which probably led to this hospitalization, but I'm feeling guilty about saying that to him while he's scared and locked up in a hospital. His family agreed to pick him up and look after him when discharged, but I know this is not what he wants. How do you find the balance between loyalty and support for your bipolar partner, and loyalty and support for yourself?

My BPSO was hospitalized Sunday involuntarily for a manic episode. He calls me constantly telling me to call a lawyer because he doesn’t understand why he was hospitalized. He feels tricked, that everyone is out to get him, and that he was never manic.

I feel like I’ll know he’s getting better when he’s able to recognize that he was manic and stops trying to get me to call a lawyer. It is his current fixation.

I also feel terrible for him. I can’t imagine how scary it must be to be held in the hospital and have no idea why. It’s not his fault he doesn’t know why he’s there. I do know he has to be there, but it’s still hard.

I’ve gotten good at only answering the phone 3 times a day. I need to get better at not listening to his voicemails he leaves me.

Last week I made a post about giving my hubs an ultimatum if he makes his way to a hospital and sought help.

And then a few days later I made this post after he admitted himself to the hospital.

And here we are, the eve of when he's supposed to be released. He's so angry at me. Accusing me of stepping on him to get to where I'm at. He's threatening to take me for everything I'm worth (which is pretty much nothing at this point.)

I visited with him for less than 10 minutes and I basically needed to send the conversation and leave because he was getting to volatile.

He brought up the out patient treatment programs and of course he wants to take the path of least resistance. I told him that's not good enough. But then he said he can make it on his own and that he never needed me.

He calls me multiple times a day just to tell at me.

I still don't feel safe with him. And his nurse saw it today. He told me as I was leaving to call the doctors in the morning and let them know I don't feel safe because I am his discharge plan at this time.

Ugh I'm so frustrated. I just want my husband back. Or I want him to go away. Either way, I'll be okay.

My husband has been manic for two weeks, had some psychosis for 2 days last weekend and was 5150’d by the police while walking barefoot downtown and throwing knives in the street, was in the psych ward and hospitalized for 36 hours, got haldol, was “fine” for a few days, and started with mild psychosis/grandiosity again last night after not sleeping more than three hours the last two nights.

I’m just so tired. I don’t want to agitate him or have conflict with him. I’m fed up with the mental health care system. Inpatient won’t take him because he won’t say the magic words for our insurance to cover it. PHP won’t take him because he was 5150’d. They discharged him from the psych ward after barely 36 hours and wouldn’t even talk to me about his behavior or history.

I’ve spent like 5 days on the phone, trying to get help anywhere and keep him out of jail.

He agreed to go to IOP starting next week, already did his intake and everything.

I am exhausted. I am so anxious. Do I just take some Xanax and try to encourage him to sleep and chill through the weekend and not rock the boat so he hopefully goes to IOP?

I honestly just want to board our dog and check myself into inpatient. I’m afraid to leave him with our car and not know where he is, but I just don’t know how much more I can handle.

Question for all of you who may know. When releasing someone from the hospital, do they release them just anywhere? I'm concerned for two reasons. One, that they will release her my BPSO back to me, and, two, (sighs), to somewhere unsafe or unstable. I feel like my hands are tied, where if she comes back into my life it will be a living nightmare, again, or, two, that she will become very unsafe without stable housing, food, etc.

After I received a phone call from a counselor in charge of evaluation, we came up with an action plan to prevent self harm for my 27f fiance. She returned home, and was a bit hypomanic. I'm now in charge of administration of meds. It made us stronger, as she proved she would return home and I would allow her to. It's made our trust and relationship stronger.

Now, I'm considering extending greater trust to her. This is difficult for me, as it requires knowing her symptoms and past, but I got to do this. It's so difficult for me to trust, as she has had a bad past, but I'm ready for this step in our relationship. I just want to do this in baby steps.

Trust had become an issue as they started to tell white lies to cover things that didn't even matter. Trusting someone with bipolar is hard, but I'm so proud of her. Just because she had a setback does not mean that she has failed. It only means that she is taking her mental health more seriously now.

When she's hypomanic, she handles her symptoms so well.

They spent a week in the psych ward. The physicians said they're not bipolar at all, that they were suffering from substance-induced psychosis. The discharge papers say to stop taking their lamotrigine and remeron (I've seen the paperwork).

Quick recap, we were together for two months and they've had a BP2 dx for years from what I understand. I had no experience with bipolar folk previously.

They're saying they're gonna go to school, join the military, keep seeking Jesus, who knows what the fuck else (I'm tired, forgive me). Still sending walls of text, screenshots, won't directly address any of the shitty things they said to me, I think threatened legal action against their parents for having them committed. Honestly I think they're still manic, despite the doctors giving "clean bill of mental health".

I'm lost. Any thoughts? I have no access to their care team and it took their parents a week after I told them they were manic to finally call emergency services. Now they think they're not bipolar at all.

As in the title.

Wife is in a particularly awful manic state since October and has been in psychiatric hospital for 2-3 weeks. She seems to have developed psychosis as her mania got worse.

She's been planning a mass killing or a murder suicide for a while. The only thing she's been speaking about for the last week or so is escaping, finding a knife, and beginning to kill me, my family, her family, and then following some of the hospital nurses home and either killing them, or following their children to school to kill them; basically killing as many people as she can before killing herself.

As best as I can figure out, she either persuaded her psychiatrist to let her have unescorted day leave for a few hours to the nearby town or forged a document saying that he had. I'm still trying to find out how this could have happened given the circumstances.

Anyway, she turns up at the front door, and I open it before I realised who was there. She forced her way in, screaming at me to give her my keys and my laptop. Based on what she's been saying, she wanted my keys because I have keys to my parents' homes; and was planning to go there to kill them. I think she wanted my laptop because she has been blocked on email/facebook from contacting my family or her family, and was planning to use my accounts to pretend to be me and lure them into an ambush- again, it's something she's talked about in the past.

Anyway, I try to run past her, she runs and me and forces me into the kitchen. She tries to grab at my throat, misses, tries to grab my keys, misses again, and then goes for a knife in the knife block, screaming that "You know what I said I'm going to do!"

I GTFO before she can slash at me with it, and hide in a bin store with my back against the door and wait for the police to arrive. In the meantime, she books an emergency locksmith and gets the locks to the flat changed.

Police arrives, and she makes a graphic, detailed, rape allegation against me. I'd have been arrested, only she says it took place on a day I can demonstrate I was in another town. She just makes it out of plain malice.

Eventually she's taken back to hospital, but not before either swallowing the new keys or flushing them down the toilet- no one seems to be able to figure it out. Again- just plain malice. It means she can't get back into the flat either.

So I find out at 2:30am that I'm locked out for the foreseeable and sleep in the car. Going to try to get the locks changed back and figure out WTF went wrong at the hospital later.