In Tandem--MLC and Depression

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I ran across some good information on another forum and wanted to share it w/you today because so many posters are questioning mlc and depression. I am listing the 26 signs of depression and I do believe you will find your spouses have quite a number of the symptoms. Here goes:

1. unable to sleep
2. unable to wake up
3. eat too much
4. eat too little
5. easily agitated
6. unable to muster any emotion
7. inability to keep the house clean
8. obsessiveness
9. inability to enjoy things at prior levels of enjoyment
10. over active sex life/inability to enjoy sex or have it
11 ruminating
12. fragile emotional state (crying is the easiest to spot)
13. engagement in dangerous activities (unsafe sex, drugs, dangerous behaviors like driving dangerously, standing on ledges high up to just name a few)
14. loss of ability to keep up basic chores of ADL (activities of daily living--change clothes clean up, shave, bathe, clean house)
15. suffering in work performance
16. over focus on doing work (avoiding balance in lifestyle to hide mood)
17. angry (intensity, reason, control of anger)
18. abusiveness
19. DESCREASE INSIGHT THAT DEPRESSION IS OCCURING
20. withdrawal
21. maudlin (over emphasis on "woe" is me, the world or whatever)
22. violence to others, self, animals (linked to anger and attempts to manage sadness. This may not be linked with true hostile behaviors and should be taken
in context)
23. suicidal
24. homicidal (again, taken in context with other symptoms)
25. decreased insight to reading others emotions and intents (again, link to overall context. Depressed people see the worst in themselves, others, the situation far out of the proportion of the reality.)
26 psychosis (yes, depression in the extremes can and does cause a loss of touch of reality)

One of the most common things that depressives do (men especially) is to let it slide, wait for tomorrow, hope it goes away or just live with it.