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Age: 44
Gender: Female

I wanted to believe that it was his working so hard that caused his sleeping in for one to two days. But when the sleeping in days began to increase to three to four days, sometimes missing a work day or two, I desparately turned to God for help through my prayers. A mother of two children and has been with my husband half my life turned into hell over time until I/we could not take no more. What made it so difficult to realize that he was on ice was that he is/was a HIGHLY functional user having the ability to hold a good paying job and help pay bills. Highly intelligent and respected by his boss/company who never questioned his anger problem, he 'appeared' to be 'normal.' However, the family saw and experienced his crashes, unpredictable anger rages, irrational beliefs and paranoia, and outright, abuse, neglect and deceit as he continued to hide this awful probem of his. His irresponsible decision to try ice once lead to us becoming a broken family. Word of advice: Don't let your worst enemy (ice) become the only friend you've got, because everything else around you will inevitably disappear and you won't even know why it happened. If you are already on it, get help before it's too late.

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