ARCVIC

@Eagle taking care of myself is the important first step in being able to take care of my husband.

It doesn't help either of us if I fall apart because I haven't looked after my own health.  It's taken a long 12 years for me to understand that not talking about his problems with others is not looking after myself.  In fact it's reaching the point where I could probably clinically be diagnosed as depressed myself.  I've never beena depressive person but when you live with it, it can drag you down to its level.

Understand me, I'm not talking about being "dragged down to my husband's level" I'm talking about being dragged down to depression's level.  Depression is the black dog that would like to bite us all on the backside and I believe that that's one thing that none of us should ever forget.