My husband would never have been able to go off to war, he's so sensitive. I can imagine how that exacerbated your David's symptoms. My husband also had depressions since childhood. He has accepted medications in the past, starting with his first severe one in his early 30s when he had to go on long-term disability. My s-i-l has confirmed that his OCD-like behaviors (he has no official dx for that) were present since his early teens. Hubby definitely has the ADD and that diagnosis. He stopped the ADD stimulants a few years ago. Since he no longer regularly works he doesn't see the need. All of these things affected his ability to get ahead in his old job. It's a shame as he's quite smart and talented in many ways.

I would also like to visit Versailles some day. I've been to Paris maybe five times but never took the trip to the palace. I asked Hubby to go one time, but he refused. He had been once. Orléans must be beautiful. I've never been there either. Our plan is to visit the Bordeaux region and parts of Bretagne and maybe Normandy. We'd surely pass through Pays-de-la-Loire (main city Nantes) between Bordeaux area and Bretagne. We'll see. Other than them, I've also visited the French Riviera and parts of Occitanie in the south. We originally seriously considered the latter for possible relocation, but I didn't get a good feeling there (and the Catalonian culture and dialect in parts), and it was too hot and humid for my taste and wellness. I like that Bretagne is a fairly liberal leaning area of France (Macron voters). I'd rather not live in an ultra conservative region. Even Bordeaux is a tinge conservative leaning, unfortunately. France also has a far right leaning Fascist-like type like Trump, named Le Pen. Sadly, several European countries have them. TBD how much power they will gain. Hungary and Poland already have them in power.

This Putin crap is concerning us, greatly. The only country that separates Czech Republic from Ukraine is Slovak Republic. If the sucker invades Ukraine, Ukrainians will be running towards us (Slovakia, CZ, and also Poland) en masse fast to escape. Definitely not Belarus (dictatorship), Hungary (semi-dictatorship), or really Romania, or Moldova. Trump already stated he wants to leave NATO. If that happened, Lord help Europe! Let's cross our fingers that the 2024 election in the US has the smartest outcome.