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			<title><![CDATA[ Put yourself first ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5052/t/Put-yourself-first.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When I first came on this website several years ago in severe emotional pain, I didn&#39;t understand how to take care of me. I wanted to just fix my
husband&#39;s depression and go on with life. Life would be so much easier without having depression around. But as I come here to this website from time to
time and kept reading that we as care takers have to take care of ourselves first. When you finally can separate from what they say and do to you then it does
seem kinda funny instead of... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:35:38 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Helping my DW with coping skills ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ First, some background.  My DW has had a long history with depression, with 3 teenaged suicide attempts and a couple of stays on disability as a result.  Not
too long before we started dating, she got the official diagnosis.  After a stay on disability, they got her meds straightened out.  While the meds she&#39;s
on are far from perfect, at least she doesn&#39;t cry at the drop of a hat, sleep all the time or argue as much.  She does have major food cravings (in fact,
the psych visits she... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:57:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Losing hope fast-I'm a mess ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5050/t/Losing-hope-fast-I-m-a-mess.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I am brand new to the depression fallout board. Boy, am I glad I found you all
though.  I&#39;m a mess. Literally.  I&#39;ve been in a relationship with my boyfriend off and on for two and half years.  He suffers from chronic depression
and OCD.  I knew this going into the relatonship; we started out as a long distance (across the big lake between Wisconsin and Michigan) relatonship. For
months we saw each other for... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (tessasmiles)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:47:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ how to let go of her completely ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I was here couple of months before. I read books, got some therapy, got quite a few advice. A bit of history here - I&#39;ve been in a long distance
relationship with my depressed girlfriend for close to 3 years out of which 2 1/2 yrs of relationship suffered deeply because of her illness. Because of family
complications, she still not getting divorce[the mere word taunts her], we couldn&#39;t workout any solution to tackle the illness. Though I was of some
support to her, her illness is... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:15:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ BPH was admitted to psych unit today...1st time ever in hosp for BP ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>Just wanted to let everyone know that after listening to my BPH&#39;s suicidal statements for the last 48 hours, I told my therapist who recommended I tell
his pdoc and talkdoc, which I did. the Pdoc had the police do a wellness check and told him he could go willingly or they would take him. He agreed to go.
He&#39;s been admitted and is VERY angry with me. More on the issue can be found in my other post titled:  <a title="Hi all, I&#39;m new here. I&#39;ve lurked in the background off... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:53:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ I took a step in the right direction today!! ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that I registered for a support group for families of depression sufferers and people with other mental illnesses at our
local Mental Health association. It starts February 4 and runs for 9 weeks once a week. I hope it helps to talk to other people and get some new perspectives.
You are all great here too but I thought something locally might be good as well. Just wanted to share. I feel good about doing this!! ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:51:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ How do I best handle this? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My DH who has left 7 months ago has regular contact with our handicapped teenage son (17). He usually takes him on weekends. It is my son&#39;s Birthday on
January 7 and what we always did in the past was have a family dinner out and then came home for Birthday cake. He wants his dad to go out with us but my
daugher who still lives at home and is an adult has already said she will NOT be there should we all go out for dinner, as she and her sister (who lives away
at College) are not on... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:42:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Should I ask her mother to call? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ My DW was hysterical yesterday over various, what seem to me and the boys to be minor issues.  She blew them up into a yelling session that swelled into
threats of divorce.  My read is that the holiday season and D hit a vortex.  Is it right and OK for me to call her mother and ask her to call, simply to talk
about anything?  We live across the country from her, but DW is still very dependent on her. 
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Anything we say is turned against us.  It&#39;s a no win.  Perhaps a call from her... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:52:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Not sure what to do re upcoming anniversary - advice welcome ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5044/t/Not-sure-what-to-do-re-upcoming-anniversary-advice-welcome.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <p>It will be 2 months on Jan. 6th since my SO left, after almost 14 years together.  He has been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder (his mom has it too) and
later, also with Borderline Personality Disorder, isn&#39;t medicated and isn&#39;t in therapy.  He self medicates his anxiety with pot.  He doesn&#39;t hit
all of the markers re the Bipolar and the Borderline but some of both.  This is not the first time he&#39;s left me, but it is the first time he&#39;s left
where he appears to be... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:29:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ looking for guidance?? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <p>Hi
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<br>
I&#39;ve been reading all your posts and feel comfort knowing that others are out there, but sad that so many people are going through the same thing.
<br>
<br>
My partner has had depression for over 6 years now, since we moved, and he doesn&#39;t understand how his illness affects our relationship, just thinking we
now have a bad relationship. It&#39;s so frustrating because for the 7 years before we moved, we had a great relationship. He seems to have forgotten all of
this... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pain of death or Pain of splitting? which can one live with? ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5042/t/Pain-of-death-or-Pain-of-splitting-which-can-one-live-with-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Hi all, I&#39;m new here. I&#39;ve lurked in the background off and on for a few years. My husband of 23 years was diagnosed with depression  back in 2003.
Bipolar in 2005. It took until November of 2008 for him to be convinced that he truely had the illness and had to take his meds...the convincing factor was
that of legal consequences due to &quot;risk taking&quot; behavior while off his meds...(3 DUI&#39;s and 2 DOR&#39;s driving on revoked). He was a commercial
ailine pilot for 16 years,... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:59:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ It's like living with a dead person ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5041/t/It-s-like-living-with-a-dead-person.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s been a while since I&#39;ve posted here. I was hoping to vent a bit and hear from others who have experienced a similar situation.
<br>
<br>
Many stories here are of partners who act out in anger, walk out of the relationship, and blame the SO for their depression. My situation is a bit different.
My SO is kind to me, takes full responsibility for his depression, and is grateful for my support. However, I&#39;m miserable. I feel like I&#39;m living with
a dead man. He was never... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Like seeing yourself in a snow globe ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi all, I used to be a board regular until two years ago, when I finally left my abusive DSO because he stopped getting treatment and turned to his nasty old
depressed self again. It felt like the man I fell in love with has lost the fight with the monster that is depression for good. I have asked myself many many
times if my choice was right or if it was my duty to stay with him because he is ill and NEEDS my help. On an intellectual level I have understood that it
would have destroyed me to... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (k8ydeer)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:34:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Unsure if I did the right thing....... ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5037/t/Unsure-if-I-did-the-right-thing-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Since this is my first go around with the depression with my bf, I am asking if this was the right thing to do.  My dbf has been home twice in the last 3 weeks
for a couple of hours each time.  He just talks about everyday things and nothing about the relationship or his counseling.  I didn&#39;t want to push him
since I know he is a person to talk on his own when he is ready.  Of course, that time frame doesn&#39;t really work with my patience, but I know that is what
I need to have.  Since... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (regtuck)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:14:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ undercurrents ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5036/t/undercurrents.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ About a week before Christmas, my husband seemed to &quot;snap out&quot; of the depressive cycle/episode he&#39;s been in for - well, a long time now. I would
hazard that he&#39;s been chronically depressed since before we met/married (&gt;12 years) and that the bouts of depression and intensity have come in shorter
and more intense cycles. This spring wasn&#39;t good. Things really bottomed out in June. Somehow the fall got even worse. It wasn&#39;t every day, but the
chronic, energy sucking... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (laski)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:49:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ the hospital again ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5035/t/the-hospital-again.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ My dh just got out of the hospital for the 4th time in 5 years, on Dec. 23.  He missed our daughter&#39;s 13th birthday party.  I guess I should be thankful he
didn&#39;t kill himself on her birthday.  I&#39;m just waiting for the day I come home to find him dead.  Sorry if that sounds cold, but when you live with
someone who is suicidal 90% of the time, it gets really tiring. And yes, I&#39;m sure it&#39;s worse for him.  I&#39;ve tried getting him to read the book, How
I Stayed alive When... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (ram1969)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ advice... ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi, I am new to this forum, but not to the roller coaster of depression... I have been with the love of my life for about 9 years now. Our first 5 years were
great and then he started being distant and seemed unhappy. He kept claiming we had big problems in the area of communication and problem solving. We had some
issues, but definitly not big ones. He broke up with me just as I was looking forward to us settling down and having a family. This totally broke my heart as I
was completely in... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:42:37 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Letter to doctor good idea? ]]></title>
			<link>http://depressionfalloutmessageboard.yuku.com/topic/5033/t/Letter-to-doctor-good-idea-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ I have posted before about my husband&#39;s (acknowledged) depression and the effect it has had on our relationship.
<br>
He thinks he might have been depressed for quite some time (which I suspected), but it seems to have gotten worse this year with continued unhappiness in his
job, the kids growing up and becoming more independent of us (thirteen year old boys), and the general sense of a mid-life crisis. This summer he had the
&quot;big talk&quot; with me, which just obliterated me, until... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:21:57 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Something I have been thinking about ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ I had gone through a really hard time with my husband&#39;s d a while back.  I was miserable &amp; almost left him.  As I have written time &amp; time again on
this board, something happened &amp; everything changed.  While I was feeling the worst, I was thinking it was because of my husband&#39;s d.  I realize now it
was because I was not happy with who I was.  I was not happy with who I had become.  It was easy to blame my husband &amp; his d for this, but it was my fault.
 After a lot of... ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (fuffy0420)</author>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:18:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Is it really depression? ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Hi there,
<br>
<br>
I sometimes start to doubt that my husband is really suffering from depression. He has never been diagnosed and I just think he has it, because after he left
so abruptly my counsellor was the one who suggested the possibilty and when I started reading about it I felt that this is what our problem was, but I often
doubt it though and then I think: What if he is just a selfish bastard who didn;t want to have a family anymore and just wanted to live his own life? I go from... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:07:27 GMT</pubDate>
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