My wife's depression please help?

Question: My wife has been going through a state of depression for a least a month that I know of. She opened up to me the other day about it for the 1st time. She says that she is depressed about her job and also about me not being home that often. I work a retail job that requires me to work a lot of evenings. She is also upset with her son who is 13 and is a little needy and won't leave her alone. I don't know what to do for her she won't seek professional help and I have tried to buy her flowers and things to make her feel better but it doesn't seem to be working. Our sex life has really suffered, we haven't had sex in over a month and it's really starting to affect me. I don't know what else to do. Any one had any sugestions?

Answers:
All you can do is be supportive of her and reassure her of your love and commitment to her. She should seek new employment and if you cannot be home with her due to your job maybe you could find similiar employment elsewhere so that you can be home more to help her with her son and take off some of that burder. I suggest that she goes to see a councelor so that she can discuss her feelings and maybe a professional can give her some ideas how to put her life back in order. She can take medications that will help her with her somber feelings...does not mean she has to take it forever but it does help in the interim. I have suffered with depression in the past and it is an awful feeling and no matter what anyone did it just was not good enough. I had to do something about the situations that was causing the problem...no one else could do it for me. As far as the sexual issues that comes along with the territory...she does not have positive thoughts right now and it takes that desire away unfortunately for you...I am sure it is affecting you but try to bare with her through this hopefully brief time. Things can and probably will return to normal in the bedroom. I wish you both you and her luck. Hang in there!

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There's not much you can do, keep trying to convince her to see a mental health professional for counseling, or even your family doctor to get an Rx for antidepressants.

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