The Mental Health Marriage

Sam Tielemans is a marriage and family therapist in the Las Vegas area, and also the host of the podcast "Couples Healing from Pornography Addiction". Sam speaks with Em about the unique challenges couples face when one has a mental health challenges, and real strategies for reconnecting and building more emotional safety when it may have been eroded.
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The 2nd half of my conversation with "Ruth", whose husband has gone through bouts of Anxiety and depression, which cause work, marital, and life issues. She shares with us their plan as a couple for his treatment, and her own coping strategies on how to still have a great life and marriage, while dealing with this illness. She mentions the book "How to Survive When they're Depressed" by Anne Sheffield, which we both recommend as a way to reset your mind towards other's mental illness.

When we want to hand our mentally ill spouses over to their Doctors or their Therapists and say "Fix Him/Her", we need to understand one thing: It's a slow process. You can't drop them off at the hospital one night and have them come home in a couple days good as new. It takes a long time, often years, to heal, grow, mature, and improve your relationship. Here are my thoughts and some helpful tools from Stephen Covey's Book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" that you can borrow to make a game plan for improving your self and your relationship, and as a result, CHANGE THE WORLD! :)

Winter is upon us! And for those of us with mental illness, or who have a spouse with anxiety, depression, or any other mental illness, this is a tough time of year. We need to fortify ourselves with every tool in our belt to help us get through this time without becoming depressed ourselves. I share some things that work for me, and I also introduce the new patreon account for the podcast at patreon.com/mentalhealthmarriage. You can also find me and friend me on Facebook by searching for Em Kacey, or e-mail me at mentalhealthmarriage@gmail.com.

Guest "S" tells of her 24 year marriage to a man only recently diagnosed as both Bipolar 2, and ADHD. She has been through a lot, including infidelity, financial struggle, having a child who is also Bipolar and all the other ups and downs that this illness brings. She has much life experience to share, and also some hard questions she is asking herself.