Withdrawal, The Worst Stage Yet?

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Hi, Job -- Does that mean there is no way to get my posting up? I did want advice about how to set boundaries based on the last letter I received. But I did figure out something-- I reminded him that I had said I could only speak about financial or marital matters with a third person present, and that if he sent me more letters, I would forward them to a third person. So far no more letters but he is RAGING and horrible to be around.

I showed his letters to a doctor friend who said that it looks like an episode of mania. I know that that is what MLC looks like in general and it all takes me back to the first year or two, when I kept thinking he was bipolar. Since we are in year 5, and he just rebombed me and wants to move out, I just wonder at times if in fact he just had a mental breakdown, is now bipolar, and will never come out of it. My faith tells me that it doesn't matter, God can do the impossible. I am just trying to figure out if dropping rope completely will apply if he really needs psychiatric care.