Depression & Anxiety
Depression Can Take a Toll on Your Relationships
In many cases, it's individual problems that start to root their way into the foundation of your marriage and other relationships. If you fail to address personal problems such as depression and anxiety, those roots will continue to grow before cracking and ruining that foundation.
Begin Your Journey Counseling wants to help those struggling with depression and anxiety. We can work with individuals or couples together in an effort to get your partner involved in working toward the problem. While professionals like us are trained and experienced in dealing with depression, we can teach you to use your relationship as the powerful alliance it is to overcome any problem.
1. Identify personal struggles as well as any undiagnosed mental health disorders.
2. Communicate with your partner how this is affecting you, and how it affects your relationship.
3. Get professional assistance for mental health issues, and learn how your partner can help.
4. Work toward a healthier mind that can improve and rejuvenate your marriage.
How to Identify Depression in Yourself or Your Partner
Depression may not always be easy to identify, and can often be a silent killer if that person is unable to express their emotions and keeps them contained in the mind.
However, you should look for any sudden shifts in emotion or attitude that are not typical of your partner. They may have struggle focusing, demonstrate a lack of interest in their life or favorite hobbies, and may suddenly stop communicating, particularly any positivity.
Talking out problems can go a long way, but unfortunately depression cannot be solved over night and you should not view it as your role to cure your partner of it. Instead, you should suggest that your partner talk to someone, and be willing to support them in tackling issues they may be uncomfortable facing.
How to Combat Depression and Anxiety
While there is no super remedy to cure depression or anxiety, there are many strategies and techniques to help you develop ways to overcome problems so that you can resume living life in a normal way.
Some may need professional assistance with identifying suppressed problems, so that they can begin working toward making lifestyle changes that can fix the problem. In cases of clinical depression, you may need to visit a psychiatrist to receive medical-grade help for the illness.
Show Love and Care to Yourself First
By addressing problems with your depression, you are not only showing love and care to yourself, but to your partner who may also be struggling with how the problem affects your relationship. It's important to remember that YOU are not the problem, but depression is the problem and it can be managed with the right help.
Take care of yourself first so that you can be the best possible person for your partner and your relationship. Contact Begin Your Journey Counseling if you or your partner is struggling.
