Re: Re: Complete turn-around in relationship

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Good point.

Many times there are other genuine health or mental health conditions that can get "lost in the fog" of a deteriorating or deteriorated relationship. Although I've been able to get off all mood regulating medications [finally], they were, indeed, necessary to make life tolerable when I had far more demands on my time and attention. It isn't easy finding a medical solution that doesn't have side effects, but if there's a chance that medication -- whether holistic, homeopathic, or alopathic -- would work, why not try it? Example: I've had lifelong challenges in having restful sleep, but finally decided to see whether non addictive, non psychological dependency approaches would work, after nearly seven months of experimenting with changes in schedule, getting-to-sleep habits and experimentation with non-traditional over-the-counter meds from reliable, safe retailers, they have.

Lots of times folks on the spectrum do develop genuine chronic or situational mental health responses to environmental stressors difficult to deal with. As long as the cure isn't worse then the condition-- on oneself and others --....hey, go for whatever works.

N. Meyer

Re: Complete turn-around in relationship

My relationship turned around for the better when my husband who as ASD started taking antidepressants. He is actually a joy to be around at time -not that everything is perfect, but not having the depression on top of everything else makes a huge difference.-- Kirsten Proffit"You are a piece of the puzzle of someone else's life. You may never know where you fit, but others will fill the holes in their lives with pieces of you."-- Bonnie Arbon