What to DO When Your Partner is Depressed: One wild idea could change everything.

Is your partner depressed? Loving someone with depressed can leave you feeling anxious, hopeless, lonely and downright exhausted. What to do when your partner is depressed? It seems like nothing helps. I know, from experience. What if it didn't have to be that way? What if you could still feel joy and love and connection? What if you could start right now?

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Helpful Books for Divorced Men
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► The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
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► The Myth Of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Brilliant, in every way. This is an amazing resource for understanding yourself and your ex wife and finding the clarity or compassion you need to forgive.
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► Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Help - Intense and well researched. I would recommend this book when you are past the early stages of divorce and have a stable support system in place.
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DISCLAIMER: I am a Master NLP Practitioner and personal growth mentor and the material in this video represents my understanding and experience and nothing more. This content is not meant to replace professional medical advice, treatment or diagnosis. Always consult your medical provider before making any changes to your treatment.


What to do when your partner is depressed? If you're like me, you constantly try to help. Loving someone with depression is hard because you feel so helpless! You can see things that would help your depressed husband or depressed spouse feel better, but you can't seem to get them to DO those things!

Loving someone who's depressed can lead you into a cycle of worry, anxiety, frustration, resentment, anger and guilt that feels so heavy it might just sink your ship for good. It's exhausting. If you stay in this cycle you'll find that dating someone with depression, or being married to them, is unsustainable.

Fortunately, you can learn how to support someone with depression without burning yourself out emotionally. The secret is a serious shift in perspective. It starts with a crazy question: What if your partner's depression isn't a problem?

I know, I sound nuts! But hear me out.

When I think that my spouse is depressed and won't get help, when I think that my husband is depressed and needs help... what happens? I feel desperate. I am constantly trying to fix him and push things on him. I was there! Not so very long ago. And guess what? When I was constantly trying to fix him, I found my depressed partner pushing me away.

I couldn't connect with my depressed spouse. I couldn't be there for him, and I was running myself into the ground with serious emotional burnout.

But then I decided to stop fixing, and start trying to love him where he was. That's the secret. That's how to support someone with depression, that's how to help someone with depression. Not by fixing, but by being present. Being with them and accepting them as they are, right now, in this moment.

To your happiness in love and life!

~Rachael