What should i do in this situation involving my depressed wife.?

If she is currently in the hospital they will assess her and then label her with some illness, i'd imagine.

She needs to seek continuing treatment once out of the hospital and she will have to want to get better and live a more normal existence in order for any treatment or therapy to help her. Its' up to the patient and doctors and therapists don't have a magic wand to "fix" their patients.

So, your wife is going to have to realize that a big portion of her recovery is up to her and is about her mind set.

I know, i had some issues earlier in life myself. I went to all sorts of doctors, psychiatrists and all they wanted to do was to peddle drugs. Therapy helped more, because i was OPEN TO HELPING MYSELF! Therapy only works for those of us who work it and who want to feel better. We have brains and we need to learn to use them in a more sound and rational way. It's possible for most of us, but many people use their label like a crutch and as an excuse for their behavior. I know who was responsible for my behavior - it wasn't a mental illness, it was ME>

Some people do have very serious or severe mental illness and they require a lot of help. But, i have been around a lot of mentally ill individuals, and i have seen that most of them have the ability to recover or improve greatly without drugs....

I'm sorry to hear that. But you can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. It seems like it's all under her control. In your previous post, you said she was seeing a psychologist? Did that seem to help at all? It sounds like she's got a lot of built up hate and is trying to make you go through this with her.

I think you both need to speak to a counselor together so you can see her point of view also and vice versa. You don't deserve to go through this by yourself and especially dragged into this mess because someone else is too selfish to try to fix their own problems. At this point, I don't think you can prevent what your wife will do. You need to sit her down and talk to her in a "grown up" way and make her understand how you feel when she does these things to you.

If I was you, I'd talk to her and get to the bottom of her problems and suggest how you both can fix it together and establish the consequences. If she's still not doing anything months down the road, then it's time for you separate. People who don't accept change, will never accept change and there's nothing more you can do.

Sometimes separation, not divorce, can help. My aunt went through an identical situation, they separated, and after diagnosing her with a nutritional deficiency, and another med, 8 months later she reunited with her husband and son.

You are in a tough spot, i'm sorry, i know no matter what you do it wont be easy, but a real man is tough, like you seem to be, you care, thats the difference.

its not down to you to prevent this from happening again .its down to the doctors to get your wifes medication correct it will be a case of trial and error reguarding getting the right one .it may take a while but your wife will get there.so probably wont even remember attacking you .good luck

The Doctors will probably diagnose her with manic depression. Just as long as she stays on her medication she will be fine