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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like antidepressants for you might help you realize you are tolerating abuse you shouldn’t tolerate, and that you deserve better.

In my experience, as the spouse of someone with severe mental illness, treatment for him is going to be more complicated and involve more moving pieces that one antidepressant.  Since you aren’t co-parenting, I would walk away.[/quote]

+1  I recognize that you love your DH but love is not enough.  Depression is also 'contagious' and given what you've lived through the last few years, I have no doubt you'd really benefit from an anti-depressant and counseling.

I also agree that, IME, treatment for him is going to be far more complex than you think it is - if he's even willing to undertake it!  I doubt that he will.  So, that leaves you with controlling the only thing that you can, yourself.  You control your reactions and responses, no one else's.  You need to work with a counselor to better understand your situation, which is abusive, and where you go from here.  Hugs.[/quote]

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