Belle2New Contributor
My partners depression is killing me
Hi guys, first time posting. I’m basically at my wits end and I don’t know what to do anymore.
My partner and I have been together for 5 years and for about 4 he has been depressed and suffered from anxiety. There have been good periods, but for the most part he’s just this giant cloud of darkness. Over th past 4 years I’ve tried to get him to get help but he wouldn’t do anything. It got to the point in November when I wanted to leave and he finally agreed to couples counselling. Obviously once we went the therapist picked up on all of his issues and ordered one on one sessions.
I went out last night and came home to him having an absolute breakdown in bed. He was in hysterics, couldn’t breathe and couldn’t function. I feel so overwhelmed by all of this I don’t know how to help and I think staying is killing me.
Now that he’s in therapy we also have the added stresses of the fact that it’s over $100 a session for him plus $200 a session for our couples counselling. We don’t have any money, we are broke, we have bills and I have exams for university coming up and I can’t deal with this. Of course the pressures of this falls on me because at the moment he can barely handle leaving the house.
I need someone to tel me this can get better, that he can respond to therapy and that it will all be okay. But if it isn’t, I need to hear from people that made the decision to leave and how you did it.
I’m so lost, I’m only 22 I don’t know how to take care of someone like this 😞
My partner and I have been together for 5 years and for about 4 he has been depressed and suffered from anxiety. There have been good periods, but for the most part he’s just this giant cloud of darkness. Over th past 4 years I’ve tried to get him to get help but he wouldn’t do anything. It got to the point in November when I wanted to leave and he finally agreed to couples counselling. Obviously once we went the therapist picked up on all of his issues and ordered one on one sessions.
I went out last night and came home to him having an absolute breakdown in bed. He was in hysterics, couldn’t breathe and couldn’t function. I feel so overwhelmed by all of this I don’t know how to help and I think staying is killing me.
Now that he’s in therapy we also have the added stresses of the fact that it’s over $100 a session for him plus $200 a session for our couples counselling. We don’t have any money, we are broke, we have bills and I have exams for university coming up and I can’t deal with this. Of course the pressures of this falls on me because at the moment he can barely handle leaving the house.
I need someone to tel me this can get better, that he can respond to therapy and that it will all be okay. But if it isn’t, I need to hear from people that made the decision to leave and how you did it.
I’m so lost, I’m only 22 I don’t know how to take care of someone like this 😞
