Some time ago I wrote to GN as I was finding my loving husband's recent behaviour very confusing. I received good advice and asked him to explain, as well as he could, what was happening. He said he had been very depressed for more than a year and from being happy, positive and loving he had become distant, anxious and only wanted to spend time on his own.
It was good to bring it into the open. He agreed to see a psychiatrist and a counsellor which he was able to arrange privately but eventually discontinued visits which were very expensive and he didn't feel helped him.
We hear a lot about mental health issues but until it comes into your own life you don't realise how far reaching the effects are on those nearest.
His personality has changed. He is not the person I married 12 years ago and we relate to each other very differently now. I miss the man I married. Occassionally the 'old' husband reappears and I know how much I love him again. We manage but I think we are both lonely in different ways and both sad for each other.
Other people have to cope with this and with dementia in a partner and I would be pleased to hear their thoughts.
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