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HELP! Spouse w/ delusional parasitosis

Please anyone with any experience or knowledge of this mental disorder please post any info/thoughts you have.

I wasn't sure where exactly to post this so hope this is the right area. I'm convinced my H has delusional parasitosis, a mental disorder where the patient mentally convinces themselves that they are infested with bugs. It has literally gotten to the point where I've been looking into how to have someone involuntarly comitted to a psych center. He has BPD but thats a whole other story, for now the most pressing issue is the "bugs". He is absolutely convinced that these "bugs" are EVERYWHERE, the bathroom, the bed, the living room, the kitchen, in the dishwasher and in the microwave even! To complicate things this disorder is often accompanied by physical feelings of itching/biting/crawling etc. I honestly don't know what to do or how to handel this. He is fixated on it 24/7, takes 4-5 hour showers, won't eat because he "sees" the bugs in his food (I got take out for dinner and fresh out the bag it somehow already had "bugs"). If I disagree he completly blows up and runs to f ind "evidence", this evidence is any speck of anything (dirt, lint, coffee grounds, etc) He literally thinks everything is a bug and has many open wounds from picking at his skin. He won't listen to me even when I'm being calm and completly ignores any observations/concerns/thought that I have about the issue. He is just mentally gone.

The biggest issue is if he doesn't get help this is going to ruin our marriage, but I know he is not going to voluntarly get help or admit it's all in his head, but if I force him or have him legally comitted I'm afraid he'll retaliate with self harm and possibly suicide. I don't know if I should contact his doctor (is she legally obligated to tell him I contacted her?) or If I need to contact an attorney who deals with adult mental disorder patients? Even if I was able to get power of attorney and have him comitted how would I get him to the hospital? I know he would blow up and completly flip out, even if the police came to escort him I can only see that situation ending badly. I don't know, I guess right now it looks like it's going to end badly no matter what. :confused:




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