How's best to help a partner suffering from depression?

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Depression can rob your loved ones of fully enjoying life or engaging in everyday activities. Instead, they may feel sadness, despair and hopelessness. Not surprisingly, their depression affects you, too, as someone who cares about them, whether it's a family member, friend or even a co-worker facing this serious medical condition.

When a loved one has depression, you can offer support and help in a variety of ways. At the same time, remember to tend to your own physical and emotional needs, too. This way, both of you will be cared for even during the darkest days.

Don't tell someone with depression to snap out of it
If you've never experienced depression yourself, then it's impossible to know how helpless and hopeless a person can feel in the midst of it.

Understand that depression is a serious illness that requires medical attention. It isn't the result of a character flaw or moral weakness. It may result from a chemical imbalance in the brain. When someone with depression can't get out of bed, go to work or play with their children, it's not laziness. Rather, it may be a debilitating sense of fatigue, overwhelming feelings of worthlessness or the inability to make even simple decisions.

Keep them from drinking too much alcohol, or smoking too much marijuana, and get them to exorcize. Exorcize has a direct effect on the dopamine level in the brain.

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