what can a person do about depression when they cannot afford medical treatment.

[hollysmom]

5. how I got my husband to go

After a rough bout in his periodic habit, we spend the night watching lost weekend (ray Milland) And he cried a lot. I told him if he would go to AA I would say I was the alcoholic and he was accompanying me, so he would not have to deal with people approaching him. When we got ther - they immediately surrounded him and told me to go home, they said that many people get into AA that way - and let's just say I used to play saints in school plays, I don't exactly look like I had a wild life, no way was anyone going to believe I was the alcoholic.

So if your brother lives near you, consider that as a way to let him see how non-judgmental it is. As I said, I have one brother with a similar problem and I can never get him to do anything without a great deal of patience that I don't generally have. It took me standing in his house for 3 hours with 2 broken feet and a broken ankle to get him to see our mother when she was dying, he was just afraid his wife would come home and see me there, and she reallllllly hates me.