My ex attempted suicide about 4 times in the last year. We filed a protection order against him after the last suicide attempt back in August 09. The protection order was lifted (but not without BD violating it atleast once by txting me asking if we could "talk" it out. The new order went in effect that it would be supervised visitation in 1 hour increments at a place in town here that records the sessions. He also was required to get a psych eval which once he found out that it was going to cost over $500 he tried to talk me out of that as well but I stuck to my guns!
He finally had the psych eval done and the psych eval more or less says that it is recommended that we continue supervised visitation awhile longer to make sure BD goes to counseling and takes his medication. He wasnt actually diagnosed with anything but it did say he presented symptoms of bi-polar.
Has anyone else had to deal with this? My kids want to see him unsupervised again and spend more time with him but obviously we will have awhile yet. How do you explain to the kids? My kids are 8,10 and 12.