Family Forum / Marriage / Marriage / July 2009

I would like to apologize to any therapists, doctors, and the
medical establishment as a whole, in my chronic raving on
the net about the importance of medication for depression and
other mental illnesses, as if they don't know.

I have just received some startling news.  My husband has been
thrown a life-saver and turned it down.  I won't say what exactly,
but as he knows it's the right thing.

And I wondered, why would he not grab at this opportunity?  Doing
a mental search through my history of the marriage- bingo!  Because
he does not believe in mental illness being treatable-- for whatever
hidden fear or stigma.  I would not be surprised if the problem has
been, not the drugs themselves all these years, but he not taking them
or not taking them regularly.

In any case, this is not the fault of the therapists or doctors.  It
is his
fault- if fault it is and not a prejudice or fear.

May he be protected from harm.  I look to the future with trepidation.
And I surrender my efforts as witnessed on thousands of posts, to
him and his doctor. fade away-- "All my love in vain"

Amen

Erin