How To Care For A Depressed Wife. Its important to take care of yourself while you help your depressed spouse. Letting a depressed person sink low before offering help is an old-school approach borrowed from the early days of alcohol and drug addiction treatment.
Seek help from your family physician or a counselor. Keep going to your Tuesday night softball games being a part of your bowling league or regularly attending church or spiritual activities. Paul says that in Romans 123.
Long-term depression is harder on your marriage tougher to treat and more likely to recurplus it leaves its victim in despair Walfish says.
When a care-giver understands that clinical depression is a genuine medical condition he or she may actually feel empowered. Dont let taking care of your wife. Self-education and self-care are both vital to successfully helping care for and foster a healthy relationship with a partner living with depression. Maybe its a marathon of their favorite show or movie set Sex In The City and The Hobbit always works for me or indulging in their favorite dessert or cuddles on the couch.