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Q: Living with someone with depression
asked by: Lissy2012 on September 29th, 2008
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Hi,

I have been with my husband now for 8 years, and obviously care for him immensely. Earlier on this year, he was diagnosed with depression, and now i feel as though he's almost got himself into this blind tunnel, where everything just comes back to his depression.

He is currently taken fluoexetine 40mg daily, which to be honest just flattens his personality. The effects of these drugs cannot be underestimated, we are also trying for a family, and they are causing problems, in that they make it difficult for him to ejaculate. To be honest i think they have made it more difficult for him to relax, they just make him edgy. Everytime i bring it up, we just end up rowing.

It is just so frustrating - i feel as though doctors just throw pills at people with depression, without offering other avenues, such as councilling, everytime i mention this to him, again just more rows.

I am so frustrated, does anyone else out there live with someone who has depression, and if so what advice would you give me.

Love Lissy
xXx
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Fevers
replied on October 10th, 2008
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Hey Lissy!
Hmmm I live with my girlfriend, and I'm the one who suffers from the depression, and Anxiety. But we also live with my parents. And my mother suffers from depression as well. Although we share the same Doctor he perscribed me something that helped my mom, but in turn pretty much made me a nuetral person (IE no personality) I took them for about a month and threw them out.

Right now I am on Novo-Venlafaxine XR Which treat both Anxiety and Depression. I would google it if you are unsure of it.

I cannot Guarantee it will work, but I can say it has definetely changed my life for the better.
And as a side note. What works for one person may not work for the next, you just have to find the one that works best for him. Why do I say this? Well like I said before he put me on the stuff that worked for my mom, but didn't work for me. Just try and get him to go in again and tell the doctor what is going on and see what he says or anything else. Who knows the doctor might even bring up councilling. I know mine did but I told him I would be uncomfortable with it.
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PraiseHim09
replied on January 13th, 2009
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help with a mood disorder husbansd
I am a my wits here. I am living a husband who I have taking back for a second time, meaning marriage. He is so moody and walks around the house just angry. I find myself in a argument and I don't even understand how we got there. He is very critical of everything that I do and by the way we have 3 girls and they are frighten of him because we just don't know when he is going to flip out. He is currently taking Neurontin and sometimes he doesnt even take them. I do love him but I just dont know what to do. He turns the conversation around and it turns out to be my fault. He is also a ex-marine and and very hard on us. He says hurtful things and then says that he doesn't understand how I was hurt by what he says becouse it came from a good place in him. We have been together for 13 years and I am just walking around not knowing. He goes through these stages of pure joy to the extreme of unhappiness and nothing in between and this could be in a days time. Please help me I do not want my girls to grow up without their father like me
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Aquamarine_Angel
replied on January 14th, 2009
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RE:PraiseHim09 r
maybe he has bipolar depression?
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