The depression rattles Margaret

Living with Margaret while she copes with disabling depression and knowing how she feels and witnessing what she is going through in her efforts to cope, has been a difficult experience for our family. The lack of readily available educational materials geared to patients and families constitutes a crucial omission, and for our family the greatest unmet need. A primary coping strategy is therefore frustratingly difficult to access. Scant information exists geared specifically to the lay person. In the absence of such materials we tackle the Internet and  professional journals in the hopes of finding any information that may help Margaret. I believe her biggest problem stems from the disabling factors associated with major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder

Major Depression and all its bone-chilling accoutrements are what have caused the demise of Margaret's life style as she knew it before the pre-AIG period.  She is not dealing with it at all.  Major Depression is legally speaking 'a physical disability'.

As Margaret's husband, the thought of her having to live with Lifetime prevalence of major depression scares the heck out of me. The last 25 months have been hell for Margaret.  I do not know what she will do next.  Major Depression can cause many problems. She says she is not suicidal but I never know what she is thinking. She often talks about having flash backs to different events that happened to her while employed at AIG. I do not like to leave her alone, I never know when she might experience a panic disorder or anxiety attack, her moods can change so quickly.

Coupled with her chronic lichen planus the major depression is making life miserable for her. The unethical practices used against Margaret to delay her entitlement to monies owing her under the disability plan are adding to the stress that has caused her depression to deepen and her lichen planus to flare up.

I am convinced that until Margaret can get what she is entitled to in the way of benefits and compensation, her chances for a full recovery are in jeopardy. We must find a way to put a closure to this nightmare of hers (being employed by AIG) behind her so she can move forward.

Former employees and members of their families who had the same supervisor as Margaret, have sent us e-mails offering evidence of bad faith employment practices. They describe how others were treated the same way as Margaret. Margaret just can't walk away, it won't solve the problems, they are too deeply routed.  Margaret had a friend and former co-worker pass away from a brain tumor.

I am always finding things to worry about, I guess it is my nature, but you never know and her constant headaches really worry me. For Margaret to recover fully we can only hope time is on our side.