Posted by mair on February 24, 2005, at 21:15:00
In reply to Sharing the burden (possible slight trigger), posted by Dinah on February 24, 2005, at 20:01:50
There's no way on god's green earth that I could ever reveal to my husband the frequency and extent of my suicidal thinking, or, for that matter, that I think about it at all. And he, too, doesn't really want to know. I think it is more than he wants to absorb - not just the suicide stuff, but all the tangles and distortions of my thinking when I'm depressed. It's been years since he asked me what I was talking about in therapy, or how much longer I might be going and when i do try to talk about things, he sort of tunes me out. I don't think he's unsympathetic; I just think it's another burden he can't take on.
Mair
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