I have been with my husband for 18 years and he has been on a emotional rollercoaster of ups and downs all his life (Now 41). Right now he is at one of the worst downs I have seen him in. I'm a very grounded person and I handle emotions and feelings of others and myself very well. Most of the time in the past it was one thing or another. Work made him down and home was good. Friends were good and home made him feel down. This time around he is just down on life and really seems to have no balance and really does not seem to care to have any kind of balance or hope. Now I know one person can not make another person happy but I'm AT A LOSS as to what I can do to help. He does have an addictive personality and it seems like this time he as dwelled on being so down that this is his new addiction. Any advise? For the first time I feel his emotions are begining to affect me and I'm begining to feel sad not so much sad for him but just blue, like I can't do anything to help and it hurts to see him like this. It's the caretaker in me.