Sometimes its easier just to think they are abducted by aliens!
MLC doesn't seem to be studied well in the medical community, at least I couldn't find much for myself searching through PubMed..
Depression is often entertwined with self-esteem issue/unresolved childhood issues..its a pretty gray area of science.
Being a surgeon, I would imagine you like things black and white, cut and dried..this is none of that and that's why it can be so hard for us LBS. Hard to watch from the sidelines and not help and not understand the direction of their behavior, to see our spouses flipping around and being so very inconsistent..
To know that that is how it is, the inconsistency, the lying, the script helps a bit...
M44 H46 T21 Married 16y D14 D12 Bomb 12/08(EA), (PA/Separation)1/09 to 5/09 Home/MC 5/09 to 12/09 Leaves 12/09 Files for Divorce Divorce final 6/30/10.