Posted by Katey on December 30, 2001, at 22:38:00
In reply to NEED DESCRIPTIVE BK/W.SITE TO EXPL. me TO HUB, posted by nightlight on December 30, 2001, at 14:16:08
have him read some of the more desperate posts.
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> Hi all
> Sorry to yell, but I really need help. I am 45, have al;ways known s/t was 'wrong', but was not properly dx'd til this year. I have ADD, depression, anxiety disorder, a tad of OCD and some chronic pain problems (which are finally under control). The dep, etc is not under control, as yet, but improving.
> Five yrs. ago I had my 1st child (surprise) at 40. Diagnosed w/3 hern'd discs & fibro. Mother got cancer, nursed her. She recuped partially, but dev'd Alzheimer's. Dad died last year . Hubby, daughter & I moved in w/Mom. I nursed her until her death late last April. I then, spiralled into a terrible depression. Worse than ever. Couldn't leave the sofa for hours on end, didn't bathe reg'ly, lost 25 lbs. No A-d's had ever worked for me. I was practically comatose w/grief & dep., plus a bad pain flare.
> Finally got pain under control, found yet another therapist, who referred me to a p-doc who dx'd ADD & and rx'd Adderall and an A-D. I'm not out of the woods yet, but I have hope. I am working part-time (!) and can get out of bed every morning. But, I am FAR from recovered.
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> Yesterday, hub tells me, he does not believe I am that ill, that this (+ grief) cd,. not make me so non-functional. And, after listening to 'excuses' for 5 yrs., he thinks my time is up. I have not progressed enough, I am not so sick, not really trying.
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> I want a book, or a website that explains what depression REALLY
> does to someone, how incapacitating TRD really is.
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> CAN ANYBODY HELP ME???
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> Thanks ever so much. He is not even speaking to me at the moment, since Xmas, 'cause I was very late to a get-together at his dad's. Said no explanation cd. be good enuf, not any more and that I had just married the wrong guy...
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> He may be right on target there.
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> TIA
> nightlight
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