Posted by Joanne on May 5, 1999, at 22:56:19
Boy, this is a hard one to write... I've been fighting with anti-depressants, finding one that
works for about 5 months... now, I think I've found one!! Sounds good, doesn't it... Well, I
thought so too. Until the last couple of weeks.
I don't cry all the time anymore. I don't go for weeks without sleeping anymore, crying all
the time. Instead, I sleep all the time... whenever I'm not at work, that is.
And, I have been seeing someone. Someone I actually think I could stay with... we get along so well...
Again, the problem? He too, suffers (is suffers the right word?) from depression... he's been on and
off Prozac for years. Lately, he's become more and more down and himself and everyone and everything
around him. I really do think we share something special, but I can't handle being around someone even
more depressed than me. It's bringing me down farther than I want or need to be. I'm trying to be
supportive, and caring, but all I want to do is shake him and say "Stop it!! You're not only the only
person with problems, but you are bringing me down farther than I want to go!" But at the same time,
being the good, enabling, depressed co-dependant that I am, I want to try to fix him.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Joanne
poster:Joanne
thread:5639
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/19990501/msgs/5639.html