Married and Depressed? There May Be a Connection
Big surprise. Being married can make you more likely to get depressed . All I wanted, when I met my husband, was to get married. (It only took 10 years.) But once we were, I didn't like it quite as much. For one thing, I now had a mother-in-law. And for another, it seemed so, well, permanent. I can remember driving home from work one day and thinking, well, I've made it through a month. A new study has found that m arital stress may make people more vulnerable to depression, according to a recent study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their colleagues, newswise.com reports. I suppose it's a no-brainer but people who experience chronic marital stress are less able to savor positive experiences, a hallmark of depression, the Web sie notes. They are also more likely to report other depressive symptoms. “This is not an obvious consequence, if you will, of marital stress, but it’s one I think is extraordinarily important because of the...