Depression - People Who Are Friend/Family

Joan Cannings

posted 11/04/2009, comments (4)

My house is falling apart around me (depressed partner)

I have been living (off and on) with a depressed partner for 8 months now and I think that I am making good progress towards making myself stronger and better able to deal with the situation. Over the course of his depression I have had to pick up most of the slack -- cleaning the house, doing dishes, cutting the grass, etc. and I have... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/27/2009, comments (4)

To those of us left waiting

I have learned so much these past few months, dealing with a partner suffering an untreated depressive episode that seems to get worse before it gets better. I have read so much, and followed all of the wonderful advice on here. If you have the endurance, strength and patience to want to continue dating someone with depression, like I do, you... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/14/2009, comments (14)

WHY DOES MY FIANCE HURT ME AND ISOLATE HIMSELF???

When my fiancé (well I guess ex-fiance now) and I first started seeing each other, it was great, He was very kind, attentive and it was like this is too good to be true....and guess what??? IT WAS!!!!!!!!!!!! This has been torture. The mood swings, him saying such hurtful things to me (cursing at me), not caring... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/01/2009, comments (3)

My girfriends depression

Hi, my name is Gary, and for a year and a half, I have been going out with, my girlfriend, who is depressed, she had one of her brothers a couple of years back, commit suicide. So, while in our relationship, she only told me she was taking antidepressants(sertaline), about 8 months later, and we started dating in May (2008), and two months... Read more Chevron

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focusoninfinity/Jim Miller

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Retired FAA/FCC licensed airline mechanic/U.S. civil servant DoD

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posted 09/01/2009, comments (2)

Capt. Meriweather Lewis, Manic-Depressive?

My grt grt great grandfather was 1814 Mobile, Alabama, 3rd U.S. Infanrty, Col. Gilbert Christian Russell, Sr., who as the commanding officer of Fort Pickering below Memphis, then Captain Russell investigated and reported on the of his friend, Capt. Meriweather Lewis. This gives me no special insite as to the cause of Capt Meriweather's ... Read more Chevron

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