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[quote=Anonymous]Boy, do I have experience with this.  My DH was unemployed for over a year and also suffers from depression/ADHD.  Does your DH want to do something about this or is he wallowing?  If wants things to be different, he needs to see a Dr. about getting an anti-depressant and he needs to develop a daily routine that includes good sleep, good nutrition and exercise. If not, you need to decide how long you will put up with living with a depressed spouse.  I can tell you that depression is 'contagious'.  You are more at risk for developing depression and with a DC with health issues, you both are already at risk (I've also got SN kids and I know the stress they cause).

Until he gets an outside job, his job now is the house and baby.   He needs to identify what he's going to do on a daily basis.  Don't wing it.  If he's organized and self-disciplined, he won't need as much structure.  If he's like my DH, he needs a list of things to do.  What helped him immensely was/is an activity log.  He always had a poor sense of how long something would take him to do and he had NO idea how much a time suck the internet/TV/bathroom are.  With the activity log, he was able to better understand where he (literally) lost time.  He scheduled time to job hunt.  HTH.[/quote]

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