Question:
Drol wrote: > My wife has been clinically depressed for the last five years or so, with > chronic severe depression. She is taking about seven pills a day for it > at this point, mostly Prozac, but she’s tried a number of other pills > (Zoloft comes to mind) and was on electro-convulsive therapy ("shack > treatments")
Oh, how embarrassing. Of course I meant, "SHOCK treatments". – Ron ^*^
Response:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:34:15 -0700, Drol said: >Drol wrote: >> My wife has been clinically depressed for the last five years or so, with >> chronic severe depression. She is taking about seven pills a day for it >> at this point, mostly Prozac, but she’s tried a number of other pills >> (Zoloft comes to mind) and was on electro-convulsive therapy ("shack >> treatments") >Oh, how embarrassing. Of course I meant, "SHOCK treatments". > - Ron ^*^
Hmmm… almost Freudian Thanks for posting! Regards, Ralph (the lurker formerly known as Ernie B.) ————————————— "Post it, and they will come." —————————————
Response:
Ernest Borgnine wrote: > Just curious as to how many of us are actually being treated for > depression and suffering through marital difficulties. I’d be > interested to know if you feel the depression caused the problems in > your marriage or vice-versa.
HOO BOY!!! > For the record, I am clinically depressed (diag’d about 3 years ago) > and on low-dose meds (Wellbutrin and Zoloft).
I think you will find a number of people on this NG who suffer from depression, both clinical and situational. My wife has been clinically depressed for the last five years or so, with chronic severe depression. She is taking about seven pills a day for it at this point, mostly Prozac, but she’s tried a number of other pills (Zoloft comes to mind) and was on electro-convulsive therapy ("shack treatments") around this time last year. She’s been hospitalized four times for suicidal depression during the three years of our marriage. She also self-mutilates and suffers from PTSD. > I feel the depression was a causative factor in our problems, although > the issues existed before the depression started.
Depression never makes anything BETTER, with the possible exception of curbing a high-desire partner’s sex drive — and that isn’t always a good thing either. > If you don’t feel comfy posting and would like to e-mail me, that’s > fine (just remember to remove "nospam" from my address).
You can check out dejanews and hear more about my wife. I’m not depressed, and if I ever was it was only situational (for example, I feel much better overall now that we are apart). – Ron ^*^
Response:
ErnestBorgnine1…@excite.nospam.com (Ernest Borgnine) wrote: > I’d be >interested to know if you feel the depression caused the problems in >your marriage or vice-versa.
It can work both ways. Those who are predisposed to depression often have a rejection sensitivity (they handle rejection poorly; they recover from rejection slowly). In this regard, marital problems can impact on depression. Conversely, depression itself cannot help but impact on a marital relationship. So it can work both ways. CJ
Response:
Just curious as to how many of us are actually being treated for depression and suffering through marital difficulties. I’d be interested to know if you feel the depression caused the problems in your marriage or vice-versa. For the record, I am clinically depressed (diag’d about 3 years ago) and on low-dose meds (Wellbutrin and Zoloft). I feel the depression was a causative factor in our problems, although the issues existed before the depression started. If you don’t feel comfy posting and would like to e-mail me, that’s fine (just remember to remove "nospam" from my address). Regards, Ralph (the lurker formerly known as Ernie B.) ————————————— "Post it, and they will come." —————————————
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