Posted by mair on May 13, 2002, at 16:24:40
In reply to Are you understood?, posted by Angel Girl on May 10, 2002, at 3:04:18
Hey I think you're way ahead of the game for even trying to make yourself understood. My MO was just to pull back from people and never let them know what was going on with me at all. My therapist lent me a book "When someone you love is depressed." (this may not be the precise title but close) It's really written for the person who isn't depressed. I think there are chapters in the book "Undoing Depression" by Richard O'Conner that also deal with this. I know when I was reading O'Conner's book I identified with a lot of what he was saying and I really wanted to hand it to my husband and demand that he read sections of it. Alas, that would have been too out of character to someone used to mental isolation. Keep trying
Mair
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