My husband has tried suicide before and they had him in a mental ward for eight days and released him. Then just recently he tried to strangled me and told me that he could kill me and not think a thing about it. Now he is speaking to me in such a manner that it scares me. He does has a drinking problem and also he hears voices and talks to them. He is on probation from when he choked me and the court had him go through anger management course which made things worse. Court also said to go through alcohol treatment in which he did not do. Now he is drinking so much again that he is verbally abusive to me all the time.
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