I've been reading some other recent posts on Sandi's thread about AD meds and I'm not at all familiar with anything regarding depression/treatments. I don't know the questions to ask, how to ask, or even what I'm going to do with any answers I get, but here it goes:
Wife has told me before that she was diagnosed in her teens as a manic-depressive and was on different medication for this. (I can't tell you anymore details as to what she was taking, when, what, how, who....nothing, I don't know) I do know that she was taking something up until about the time that we got together and for whatever reason, stopped taking it.
From the time that I met her until maybe 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years into our relationship, wife was what I considered HD. Early on in our relationship, wife would occasionally have times where we would be sleeping and I would be awakened by her crying and for no apparent reason. She didn't know why or what she was crying about, just that she needed to cry. I would always be there to console her and was never critical of her condition, I was just there for her. This would happen maybe once or twice in a 2 -3 month span for about the same 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 years and it slowly tapered off at about the same rate as her going from HD to LD. Connections??? From what I have gathered from some of the posts is that it is usually the opposite no?
For what it's worth, here is some additional info:
- Wife was HD up through the birth of 1st daughter and probably 10-12 months thereafter, again, slowly tapering off along with the crying episodes. - Wife became pregnant with 1st daughter before we were married and was afraid to tell me. I have not really gotten a definitive answer from her as to why but never really pressed for one either. I'm a very easy going guy, so I'm not sure if it was just a common fear that I would abandon her or how I would react. (I'm not that type, and I was thrilled BTW ) - Wife's LD continued during 2nd pregnancy to present (2nd daughter will turn 3 in Nov ) - Wife did not have the most stable life growing up - mom was an alcoholic, and the primary care giver - dad was a Navy man and for the most part, was around. Wife was a typical rebellious teen. No physical, sexual abuse to speak of. (No physical abuse but we both grew up with parents with the same philosophy....no timeouts for bad behavior, we got our ass whooped !! Thanks mom )
When we first got together, I was the most stable thing she had ever had in her life. (Ok, I've opened up some doors for some heckling due to some of my posts) I'm seeing a connection that as her life has become more stable, her depression, anxiety attacks, whatever...have diminished. But so has her libido. I'm curious to see if any others out there have had similar experiences.
