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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 321184" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>Interesting... </p><p> </p><p>Well, I may never know what sister in law#2's issues are. Not that it changes anything. It's just nice to understand for my kids' sake so that when they are adults and wanting to talk more about this kind of stuff I'll know what to tell them.</p><p> </p><p>husband's psychiatrist has said he feels husband has some type of mood disorder that was more on the depressive end, which explained why he initially did so well on Lamictal -- and it also helped him organize his thoughts and express his feelings better -- it was like he could never access the right words, perhaps because he was always emotionally flooded. But he has historically also had issues with compulsive shopping, gambling, sex-related stuff (I'll spare you the details), coupled with periods of intense concentration on things I'll call "projects" that he will just throw himself into and work on as if nothing else in the world matters (like laying thousands of bricks in our backyard in the middle of February (okay, so it's California winter, but it's still chilly) at night after work until 11pm, midnight with work lights set up so he can just keep on working and working and working (ended up giving himself carpal tunnel from that little project).</p><p> </p><p>Well, thanks for the insight. Gives me more to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 321184, member: 3444"] Interesting... Well, I may never know what sister in law#2's issues are. Not that it changes anything. It's just nice to understand for my kids' sake so that when they are adults and wanting to talk more about this kind of stuff I'll know what to tell them. husband's psychiatrist has said he feels husband has some type of mood disorder that was more on the depressive end, which explained why he initially did so well on Lamictal -- and it also helped him organize his thoughts and express his feelings better -- it was like he could never access the right words, perhaps because he was always emotionally flooded. But he has historically also had issues with compulsive shopping, gambling, sex-related stuff (I'll spare you the details), coupled with periods of intense concentration on things I'll call "projects" that he will just throw himself into and work on as if nothing else in the world matters (like laying thousands of bricks in our backyard in the middle of February (okay, so it's California winter, but it's still chilly) at night after work until 11pm, midnight with work lights set up so he can just keep on working and working and working (ended up giving himself carpal tunnel from that little project). Well, thanks for the insight. Gives me more to think about. [/QUOTE]
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