No, he has the basic clinical type depression. It is something he has semi battled with most a good part of his life - primarily due to poor relationships. He only had to go on AD one other time and that was about 5 years ago when his business partner "stabbed" him in the back and started up another company in competition. It all worked out in the long run but my H takes his work VERY seriously. When things have gone awry in the past, he has always thrown himself into work - it is who he is! (like a lot of men). I don't know if depression runs in his family or not because - and here we go again - he's adopted!
It is VERY common, apparently, for adopted men to suffer from the W/M complex, because of the lack of connection with their biological mother. He was adopted pretty much right from birth too but that doesn't seem to have mattered.
Just out of curiousity, have you ever read the book called "Primal Wound"? It's written by Nancy Verrier. I bought it when my H first found out he was adopted and I could have sworn she interviewed him for it - its so dead on. However, you do have to take it with a grain of salt too because there are a lot of things that are very generalized (just like horoscopes) but it does seem to have a lot of merit. She also wrote another book called "Coming Home to Self" which deals with the adoptee from an adult point of view - not as insightful as the other one
Heywyre
M - 57 H - 65 1st A-bomb - Nov 27/02 2nd A-bomb - Dec 13/06 together 21 years *************************** Insanity is doing something over and over and expecting different results (Albert Einstein)
