If your husband is depressed, he had a medical condition that is affecting his body's chemistry. The best thing for him to do would be to seek treatment from a counselor/therapist and/or a psychiatrist.
Depression has causes, symptoms and treatments of its own, just like any other medical condition. You can't "get better" just because you want to. You often have to work at it, through a combination of therapy, medicine, nutrition and exercise. These are the things that will get the chemistry back in line and help the depression lift.
His mood and anger come from the depression. Depression's job is to keep us down, to keep us immobile, and to make us resist help. We often have to work really, really hard to get off the couch and into someone's office to ask for help. But it's the best thing we can do.
And no matter how hard you try, you can't fix it for him. You are helping him by listening, but don't let his depression make you believe that something you do or don't do will change it for him.
Would your husband be open to therapy and/or medication? Can you seek this where you are? Or must you wait for the next move?
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HI, Samurai, and thank you for your question.
If your husband is depressed, he had a medical condition that is affecting his body's chemistry. The best thing for him to do would be to seek treatment from a counselor/therapist and/or a psychiatrist.
Depression has causes, symptoms and treatments of its own, just like any other medical condition. You can't "get better" just because you want to. You often have to work at it, through a combination of therapy, medicine, nutrition and exercise. These are the things that will get the chemistry back in line and help the depression lift.
His mood and anger come from the depression. Depression's job is to keep us down, to keep us immobile, and to make us resist help. We often have to work really, really hard to get off the couch and into someone's office to ask for help. But it's the best thing we can do.
And no matter how hard you try, you can't fix it for him. You are helping him by listening, but don't let his depression make you believe that something you do or don't do will change it for him.
Would your husband be open to therapy and/or medication? Can you seek this where you are? Or must you wait for the next move?
November 25, 2009 - 9:50amThis Comment
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