O heck yes I have!!! Re: Anyone else loose their appetite/will to live?

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H. and son:

 I have to jump in here and give you a male side to this. Okay before Stills I

did not fight depression and now I do and yes I fought it to the depths of hell

and it almost did end my life. That happened at the time I to had my wife hit me

with divorce papers just had my SSDI hearing and two days later I lost my

battle. Thankfully I am still hear and I did learn a lot from it and my life has

greatly improved from that day to now not financially as that has gone down hill

but emotionally it has gotten better and to the point I now have the wife I

thought I had before only now I know I never did I only fooled my self into

thinking I did!

 

I will tell you my depression was caused from the meds I was on back then. Well

for about two years or so I was on no meds but still fought it and it was over

my divorce not being able to see my kids and my health keeping me from working I

was only about 42 at the time.

 

Now some years later I started to get depressed again so what the? Well turns

out MTX can also cause depression and in my self it was so now I also take an

anti depressant and it takes the edge off. no I do not run around happy joy joy

all the time but I am me again both up and down like I was before all of this

happened.

 

Now the eating this okay I to lost a lot of weight I went from over 200 lbs

because of the steroids to just under 160. I am 5' 10 " some how I lost an inch

after stills also. Now most of my life I have not delta with hunger pains and my

son is the same way. My wife now will ask me about eating and I normally say I

am not hungry so she just put a plate in front of me knowing that way I will

normally eat and she is right but left to my body to tell me forget it fact is

my stomach only growls when it has food in it! now I have been skinny all my

life tell stills that is and now again I am at 200 plus but that is from just

not being able to do a lot like in the past and I eat more (thanks to the wife)

then I have also in the past. I left to my self would eat once a day if I was

lucky. so as for your son a lot is normal for what he is dealing with and some

is not but there is enough that he should talk to his doctor about it all and

ask for some thing to may

be take the edge off. I know dealing with a divorce and a wife saying what she

did (kind of like mine also) is hard then looking as a man to the lose of a job

and not being able to work any more most likely is hard as we men are not made

to not work nor are we brought up with the idea that we could stay home because

we are after all what we do as a job. woman are now also starting to feel this

also as more and more aware single heads of house holds  or the main bread

winner of there home.

 so that is a mans take and there are a few of us I only hope more chime in but

please show him this note at lest and let him know he is welcome to talk with me

any time by writing to my e mail and or send me his phone number threw it and we

can talk on the phone on my dime.

Hugs to you and him also with all my best and understanding

 

the redneck

Marty G.

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C.S.