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Old 07-27-2007, 07:05 AM
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Elana
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Hi DW. Good to hear from you. Hope you are OK.

My X Husband was an alcoholic. He was mentally ill for most of his life with severe depression. His thinking was often irrational. One of his greatest fears was to be left financially destitute in old age.. and his thinking on this was often obsessive to the point where he squandered all of his today's foor fear of this happening tomorrow (if that makes sense).

After we were divorced and after he had made several unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide both b4 and after our divorce, his family had him involuntarioly committed to the State Psychiatric hospital. He died there 8 months later of a heart attack. He never got the tomorrows he was so obsessed about.

So, yes, I have dealt with mental health issues in an addict. In this case the DOC was alcohol but it really matters not the DOC.
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