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I learned over time that what was best for me was to spend as little time as possible with negative and toxic people and to surround myself with positive and caring people to operate at my best. Some of the toxic people are in my family, so it's a dance. My sister died of cancer when we were younger but I was not properly diagnosed until my teenage years with depression. I have a few people I have shared with that I have recurrent major depression. My team is my husband, my dad, two co-workers, and three close friends. Medically, I have a great psychiatric nurse practitioner and a counselor. These are the folks that are okay with me being me when I'm not so hot. With everyone else I try to have that "fake it til you make it" mask on til I get better. I think your efforts to help DH are terrific. Through trial and error, I have found that it helps, no matter how awful I am feeling, to tell my hubby how wonderful he is and how I appreciate him taking care of me and then I make sure he goes to the jui jitsu classes he loves. And, he's going to have a few individual sessions with a counselor so that he can be heard. I have my own individual sessions. He tells me that it's difficult to talk to his friends about his wife going through clinical depressions and he feels trapped. I think it will help him to get gain some insight. For quite a while we dealt with resentment because he thought there were times when I just chose not to do anything and he had to do a lot more around the house and with our son. He is closer to understanding that it's not a choice. Who would make that choice? Hope this helps. Take care!View Thread

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