Hey @Shaz51 it is so so so hard. You have to work twice as hard as everyone else and eat half of what they eat and still struggle (this is pretty much what my NDIS Exercise Physiologist said in a nut shell today) .....I hate that side effect. As a women another aspect that I have found really hard to assert in a male dominated field of medicine such as Psychiatry is my sexuality. The sexual dysfunction is acknowledged with men but if women try to say that I won't let you chemically castrate me which is pretty much what it feels like, they glare at you like you are some sort of freak but they fall over themselves if a man says I can't get an erection and will never have an erection ever again on these medications and I am about to lose my relationship. Maybe his Psychiatrist will let him have breaks from his medication......its hard to say. Then again some people are really lucky and have very little side effects. Also with nutritional advice he needs to take in to account any other health problems he may have. We are all very much our own individuals when it comes to what we need nutritionally...I can't eat gluten and I have always been anemic. Depending on what your husbands physical health constraints are he may only have a few choices of meds.....its hard to say, I wish you the best of luck Corny 
treatment is such a juggling act @Shaz51.....its so hard if your husband has found a med that works and gives some relief, but has unpleasant side effects......we are all such individuals and have to often chop and change.
The way I see it, if he is getting some respite from his suffering he is a lucky man.....being on the ward some patients will be burnt into my memory forever.....not so much them as people, I didn't really know them, but their suffering. It was largely treatment resistant, they'd tried every medication there was to try and ECT was the last resort....I wish your husband the best health he can have given his circumstances and pre-existing conditions. Corny 
