My Journey with a Loved One Suffering from Chronic Depression and Bipolar Disorder

We both suffered for years in a limbo state, not knowing what the heck we were dealing with. Neither of us could understand his behavior. My husband was depressed from the moment I met him, and stayed that way. First, he was depressed because his dad had died 3 years prior to us meeting each other. Then, he was depressed over a huge lie he told me at the beginning of our relationship. He always seemed to be riddled with guilt over everything that happened to him, whether or not he had any control over what happened. He was easily depressed over incidents that happened across the globe, at work, to our neighbors and just about the entire newspaper made him depressed. He was like a raving lunatic, waving his arms around, jumping up and down. His moods of being really, really sad or extremely upset or excited seemed to me to be deeper and change from one extreme to another rapidly. He could not remember anything to save his soul. He even forgot what he would say to me, 5 minutes after he said it. We needed help, and we needed it to be from someone that knew what was going on with him.