Re: Husband and Prozac

Hi there,

If the prozac has been helping him; most would consider his problem bio-chemical/physical; or that the medicine aides him as a cruch or has a placebo effect... Depressed people who do not respond to medication are considered to have a depressive type that is situational/psychological (speaking in extremes ofcourse, there is grey in between) and therefore most suitable for counselling. If this presumption is accepted, i.e, that his problem is mainly physical/biochemical then counselling may not entirely be the answer; some ideas off the top of my head are:

1. He stays on medicines and gets help for sexual dysfunction (i.e, v1agra)which sadly is a sideeffect of SSRI's; or you put up with a husband with low sex drive (sad), or,

2. He goes off the medication with help from a counselling psychiatrist and commits himeself to learn how to cope with the unpleasant feelings he has; and maybe in time he can overcome them, or some of them (but he must take responsiblity for this) , and/or


3. He has a complete detox (in case this is causing his depression) including parasite, liver, kidney and bowel detox. As a precaution and a good idea anyway.


I would go with #3 firstly as he is probably full of medicine and backed up as well. Is he open to this?

Best of luck.