Depression / Denial

[husky69]

Hi

My wife is currently in a bad position and believe it is down to depression, back in April Doc told her that on a level of 1 to 10 and 10 being the worse in terms of depression she was about number 7, gave her anti depressents

The latest is that we visited a councillor and she suggested that we have zero contact for one month, my wife moved out to get space and in my eyes run away from her problems but they have just followed her to new oplace and she is worse. Puts on a smily happy face when run others but when with her family she is like a zombie, only the past few weeks are her family really seeing this and now understand my concerns.

Will depression make you be in denial of having the problem??

Any help / advice is appreciated - i want to be supportive for my wife who i love dearly and a month with zero contact is very very hard

[Ballerina123]

I think it can be quite common to be in denile about depression, especially if it is a first episode.
When I first go depression I did realise that's what it was. I just thought I was just being lazy and misserable. It was only in hindsight that I noticed it as depression.

I would advice that you speak to you wife about it daily. Let her know she can talk to you about anything and that you are there for her no matter what. Know that you have support from loved ones can often take off a bit of pressure.
Attend drs appointments with her.

And learn about her illness. There are lots f book on amazon about how family members can help people with depression.

All the best

[husky69]

I wish i could speak to her but we are taking the councillor advice and have zero contact, she would not let me go to doctors appointments with her, she is in a really bad place at the minute