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I hope OP will come back and update us but only when [i]she has time because her DH is in a psychiatric ward[/i]. I hope her silence here means she's busy dealing with doctors to figure out how best to get her husband professional treatment.

OP, unless you can go without ever sleeping again; without ever having to leave him long enough even to take a shower -- he needs to be in in-patient care until he is stable enough that you will not have to stay awake and with him 24/7. People who want to kill themselves WILL find a way to do it even if they say they won't. Some forms of suicide only take that moment that you're in the shower, or dashing to the store, or falling asleep because you think he is asleep too. If those sound like scare tactics on my part, they are meant to be just that. Please don't try to handle this on your own.

An actual attempt at suicide is a huge indicator that there will be another attempt if the person is not given intensive help. And a spouse is not qualified to be the sole giver of that help. That is not a criticism of you. If he had cancer, you would not keep him home and try to give him chemo that you came up with yourself. Please look on his mental illness the same way, AS an illness, and get him professional help, and in a case of attempted suicide, that means hospitalization followed by rigorously followed psychiatric help and possibly medication and maybe family therapy involving you as well. [/quote]

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