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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 136556" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">How is his diet? What is he eating? Does he eat healthy and if not, can you try to incorporate better foods into his diet? Perhaps there are dishes that you can slip things like Flax oil and Fish oils into? Does he eat fish? Does he move, you know, exercise at all? </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Can you take a quiet moment and without arguing or turning red in the face, calmly tell him that you think he may be depressed and needs to see his DR? I had said that to my H and he flips out. BUT, out of the blue the other night he said "I think I'm depressed" and of course I was *thinking* "Duh, ya think??" Instead, I said, "Perhaps you should call Dr R and go see him". H grumbled, he probably won't go see him.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: indigo">Shari, you have more than just the simple running of a household going on. You're out there fixing trucks, changing oil, running around, running a farm basically, transporting, etc. That's a heavy load to carry all by yourself while having a fully capable, able bodied partner in your life. He's not behaving as a partner should. Part of his responsibility to you is to take care of himself and if he's depressed he needs to see someone. That is what I have told H - he's not living up to his responsibility to me as my H. H knows it, but I think he's embarrassed and humiliated to see his DR about being depressed, as if it makes him less manly. Plus, my H will likely refuse to take any medications for it anyway. He thinks we're all crazy for taking medications and the stupid non-stop commercials on tv aren't helping my cause. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #4b0082">More hugs and support. I hope you can convince him to see the DR for this. It's worth looking into at least. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 136556, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]How is his diet? What is he eating? Does he eat healthy and if not, can you try to incorporate better foods into his diet? Perhaps there are dishes that you can slip things like Flax oil and Fish oils into? Does he eat fish? Does he move, you know, exercise at all? [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Can you take a quiet moment and without arguing or turning red in the face, calmly tell him that you think he may be depressed and needs to see his DR? I had said that to my H and he flips out. BUT, out of the blue the other night he said "I think I'm depressed" and of course I was *thinking* "Duh, ya think??" Instead, I said, "Perhaps you should call Dr R and go see him". H grumbled, he probably won't go see him.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=indigo]Shari, you have more than just the simple running of a household going on. You're out there fixing trucks, changing oil, running around, running a farm basically, transporting, etc. That's a heavy load to carry all by yourself while having a fully capable, able bodied partner in your life. He's not behaving as a partner should. Part of his responsibility to you is to take care of himself and if he's depressed he needs to see someone. That is what I have told H - he's not living up to his responsibility to me as my H. H knows it, but I think he's embarrassed and humiliated to see his DR about being depressed, as if it makes him less manly. Plus, my H will likely refuse to take any medications for it anyway. He thinks we're all crazy for taking medications and the stupid non-stop commercials on tv aren't helping my cause. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#4b0082]More hugs and support. I hope you can convince him to see the DR for this. It's worth looking into at least. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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