[superdog]

To be fair there couldn't be more distance at this point anyway!

Love the hulk analogy! I only wish the green guy I get was a bit easier on the physique eye. :-)

I don't know if I knew him or not now. I will decide if I ever see that guy again whether he was real or not.  If he never returns and this guy stays I will do one of those cartoon run really fast skids out of town.

I wish someone would do a real brain study and psychological analysis whilst someone is in full blown mlc. 

Like your take Ready.

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[calamity]

SD quote: I wish someone would do a real brain study and psychological analysis whilst someone is in full blown mlc. 

Yes. And check hormones.  And anything else.  Doesn't anyone live in a country where they could have him committed?   

[Ready2Transform]

CJ, you sound like my dad!  Several times he's suggested as the spouse I would have the right to just call and have him put somewhere like they used to in the 1950's.  I only half think he's kidding. 

And I'm with you sd, mine's busting out of his pants, but in a totally non-Hulk way. It makes detaching easier, at least!

And Anne, the creative project thing is in my history, too.  He and I have made music together since day one.  We used to have dates in our teens where we'd buy cheap blank canvases and make each other paintings.  It was a no brainer that someday we'd run a creative business together, and it was bliss before the ship went down.  I have a very hard time now believing it's been his lifelong dream to be a farmer and a hunter who doesn't have anything to say.      Nice try, MLC.  No dice.

[Anjae]

A full brain study and check the hormones is a good idea.

CJ, you sound like my dad!  Several times he's suggested as the spouse I would have the right to just call and have him put somewhere like they used to in the 1950's.  I only half think he's kidding. 

I'm with your dad on that one. Put them away while the crisis lasts seems fine with me.  Sadly one can not do that here. Anyway, here, in the 1950's a husband could put the wife away for no reason but a wife would have lots of troubles putting the husband in such place.

And Anne, the creative project thing is in my history, too.  He and I have made music together since day one.  We used to have dates in our teens where we'd buy cheap blank canvases and make each other paintings.  It was a no brainer that someday we'd run a creative business together, and it was bliss before the ship went down.  I have a very hard time now believing it's been his lifelong dream to be a farmer and a hunter who doesn't have anything to say.      Nice try, MLC.  No dice.

We also had several creative joint projects/business and it was bliss since day one. Until, for some reason, husband though clubbing and be a sort of small rate celebrity was a great idea. This from a man who detested that lifestyle...  So, of course we don't know them. Right!  I don't ever remember mine saying he wanted to be clubbing in his mid 30's but maybe I miss that part... 

[underpressure]

i have something very interesting to add to this discussion.

When I met my husband in 1999 he had just come off his second divorce in 2 years. When his first divorce happened, he was already depressed (which drove his 1st wife into an affair, essentially, and she divorced him to marry OM). After divorce he was so depressed that his brother who is an MD suggested he go to a serious psychiatrist. It was this psychiatrist (a female, actually) who told him that Shock Treatment might be the best option.

SHOCK TREATMENT.

And just recently (12 years later) he told me this and said if the prozac hadn't helped then he would have done the shock treatment. He says it actually works. He has researched it.

Did anyone see the Mad Men episode where the married woman that Pete Campbell has the affair with was shipped off to an asylum and given shock treatment and that she couldn't remember who Pete was after that?

Tempting.

[Anjae]

Thanks for the imput, UP.

Did anyone see the Mad Men episode where the married woman that Pete Campbell has the affair with was shipped off to an asylum and given shock treatment and that she couldn't remember who Pete was after that?

I saw it. Shock treatment had been abandoned here decades ago but last year, when my MLC cousin had to be taken to my friend who is a psychiatrist my friend told me they had restart doing shock treatment. But only in very severe cases and that it is totally different from the shock treatment of the past.

Prozac does not work on everyone. My husband had been depressed twice years before MLC, due to physical and mental exhaustion, and Prozac did not work on him. Only drove him mad and made the depression worst. The same happened with my cousin. Guess each depressed person is different and so is the depression.

[Ready2Transform]

EGADS!  It all seems so medieval.  But then I think of my H in his 18th/19th century garb, and think he might be down with that.   

[calamity]

 

[LettingGo]

Trying not to cry for laughing, Ready2... but....

On the topic of shock therapy... my BF's husband has been severely depressed for YEARS.... she has acted out in frustration.... insisting he is a "child, who knowingly and willingly CHOOSES to remain a child... blah, blah, blah..." and rest assured.. I have MUCH sympathy for her... she is FULL of life, and he is a shuffling old man....so while I UNDERSTAND what has happened to him, intellectually.. she cannot imagine being shackled to him for the rest of her life.... I see that she feels no hope... BUT, I wonder if she MIGHT, a little bit... IF, and ONLY IF.... she was able to PRAY for him, without making him the CENTER of her world.. know what I mean??? TO actually want the best for him (she says she does, but I sense FEAR in her of a life being WASTED... I understand.... truly!) without having NEEDS that he has to fulfill.... She has always had a life, and CREATED a full life for herself, very social... and different than his... she OUTGREW HIM...... Okay, so...... this year he was hospitalized for a COMPLETE mental breakdown... had NO idea what age he was.... talked a lot about getting a puppy.....

Long story short..... through therapy....and FOUR ANTI DEPRESSANTS..... his recommendation is SHOCK THERAPY!!! It sounds medieval... but what if you are the spouse who has lived with depresion for YEARS and multiple prescriptions with NO relief??? What are you left with? I seem to recall that Carrie Fischer had schock therapy..... you could Google it up if you want.....

Bottom line is... this is MENTAL ILLNESS.... hopefully and probably temporary... but it is an illness and not a choice....

[calamity]

Hey, I'm getting thinky:  we have an electric fence...