Relationship Conflict during a Mental Health Crisis, Advice Series
This is the next video in our new advice segment responding to questions or scenarios submitted by our viewers. In this video, I respond to this submission: My husband has been living with schizoaffective disorder for about 6 years. For the first few years, he had trouble coming to terms with his diagnosis which resulted in issues with adherence to medication and several hospitalizations. In more recent years, he is doing much better with taking his meds, but we still seem to have communication issues when it comes to the subject of his mental health. During the past year he had a long period of really good health and it was nice because it seemed like normal and I didn t feel like I had to bring up the topic of his mental health regularly. However, a few months ago I started to notice changes in his behaviour and I became concerned that he might be heading towards another psychotic episode. When I tried to talk to him about it, I thought I was being as gentle as I could when I told hi
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