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Gene, welcome to the program.

Thank you very much, Dr. Laura.

I'm going to give you a tiny bit of background first.

Okay.

And that is that my husband and I know each other we've been married almost 50 years now and in the last few years

He's been suffering from quite a bit of depression

The council we went to see at one

point also to say he is prone to double bind thinking. I tend to have to be

what I consider fairly diplomatic, they're almost walking on eggshells to get something.

Has he always been depressed or is this just a year or two?

I'd say it's been closer to 10.

And has he been medicated at all for this?

At one point and he did not like that and stopped. That's when we did go see the counselor who was

talking about the double bind thinking and so forth.

But he didn't follow up.

telling him he had double bind thinking? How was a therapist hoping that would help him?

I think he was just saying that into understand the... Really? what do you understand

well for me what I call it blocking is it what I'm trying to come up with suggestions or things, he blocks it automatically, he,

you know, first reaction no kind of thing. I tend to be that a little bit myself too, so I

tried to be again diplomatic in presenting ideas or changes or that kind of thing.

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