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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Andrea is sad and lonely since her separation, but Dr. Laura says she's in no position to date anyone right now. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Andrea, welcome to the program. Hi, thank you very much for having me. Thank you. How can I help?
0:28.3	Well, I have a bit of a story to tell you. My husband and I, we were married for 18 years. We were together for 20. About a year and a half ago, he became kind of delusional. He was accusing me of cheating on him. He became very abusive. He was never the
0:43.3	greatest husband, but it just took a real nose dive about that year and a half.
0:47.6	Are you saying he developed a mental illness or he was on drugs or he may have had a brain tumor?
0:54.7	I don't think it's a brain tumor, but I do think it could be a combination of the other two.
1:00.2	If it was me and I'm not a mental health professional, I would say maybe schizoaffective disorder,
1:05.6	but we haven't been able to get.
1:07.0	Where did you learn about schizoaffective disorder?
1:09.5	That's pretty sophisticated.
1:11.3	It is. Yeah, I did some research online and just looked at all the symptoms, and that was the one
1:15.8	that seemed to make the most sense to me. Did you bring that to his attention?
1:21.4	I did. I did. And his family tried as well, and we didn't have any luck. So you had feedback that he was mentally ill, probably from the beginning, because you said
1:34.4	he wasn't always, he wasn't the greatest husband, so you settled a bit in bringing him into
1:41.1	your life.
1:43.3	Yeah, I didn't realize. This is important.
1:45.5	Things were very good. No, don't, please, do not say you didn't realize he had
1:49.6	schizoaffective disorder. You don't have to put a name on a disorder to notice that there are
1:54.6	behaviors you don't like. So don't, don't go there. So let's go back to when you were dating how old were you how old was he
2:06.4	i i'm going to say i was about 25 years old uh he's the same age um we met well working
2:15.6	by the way did his parents did his mother in particular ever take you aside and
2:21.7	give you some information that led you to believe she was concerned about his mental health?
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