Any suggestions for getting husband to try program?

Joel2:25 · Post by **Joel2:25** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:57 pm

My husband has suffered from depression for years. He has had ineffective counseling, and drugs that had unpleasant side effects, and now he is reluctant to try anything else. He is sure this program will be more hype than help. Any suggestions for how I can encourage him to give it a try? Are there parts of the program I could play for him that would give him quick initial results for his depression and maybe give him hope that the program could actually help him?

deedee00 · Post by **deedee00** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:12 pm

If you can get him to listen to the lesson on depression that may encourage him. Then try to get him to listen to disc one so that he'll get info on what the program can do for him. When he listens to it, and identify with those symptoms, he'll come along.

I hope you can find a way to get him to listen.

Joel2:25 · Post by **Joel2:25** » Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:10 pm

I already tried to get him to watch the Jumpstart DVD, but he fell asleep just a few minutes into it. He hasn't been sleeping well at night. I didn't want to wake him up because the last time I woke him up from a nap he got mad at me because he needed the sleep. When he did wake up, I was listening to disc one. He listened for a few minutes, then said the entire thing sounded like a sales pitch with nno actual help, and if that was what he was paying for, he wanted no part of it. I have tried to tell him that he slept through the part that had useful information, and that the later discs really do help, but now he says he's tired of me bugging him about it (i.e. I mentioned it a couple of times and I inadvertantly left the box where he could see it) and now he wants it out of the house. I remember in one of the parts I listened to that Lucinda said some of the most negative people do the best on the program, but what do you do with someone who is so negative he has judged the program useless before even giving it a fair trial?

woodbridge · Post by **woodbridge** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:12 am

Is your husband into sports? If so, ask him to name his top five favorite athletes. After he does that, make him this bet. "I will never bring up StressCenter again if you can provide any proof that these athletes got to where they're at in life through negative thinking; beating up on themselves; and doubting everything in life. If you can't, then we buy this program and you start". See, his depression is rooted in low self-esteem, and negative thinking. Here's another one to try on him. "I'll not bring up StressCenter if you can slowly say the following to yourself in a mirror (with you present) without losing eye contact; I love myself, I am a worthy person; I believe in possibilities; I accept help from others". I'd bet dollars to donuts he can't do it. I say all of this because he has to come face-to-face with this negative thinking. Only then will he realize he has a problem. I know, because I've been where he's at.