On a slight side issue, does anyone have experience of living with a partner who has early onset dementia?
What coping mechanisms did you try and did any of them help?
How do you maintain your own health and sanity when it's all going tits up around you?
The answer is that it depends on circumstances - which is no real help.
Depression might or might not be temporary and recoverable. Dementia isn't.
I think most people would benefit from outside help, but many are too ashamed, or nervous, or afraid to ask.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41599714
Article about Chris Kirkland (ex Liverpool and Wigan goalkeeper) and his issues with anxiety and depression.
" 'Once I started talking things seemed a lot clearer'
It's ok to talk, don't be ashamed, don't be embarrassed. You'll always get some...
From your side... (some of this may sound harsh and unsympathetic but it really isn't intended as such)
....things that really p*ss me off about living with someone with depression (I know it isn't their fault, they can't help it, it is the illness talking not them, but it is SO frustrating...
He or you or both MUST see a doctor. You cannot resolve this on your own - it just isn't possible.
Medication can help, but it depends what he is actually suffering from and what is prescribed (but a blanket refusal to consider it whatever the circumstances is not a good sign).
This site is...
There have been previous on here about various forms of mental illness - notably depression. Some of the comments on them are flippant and unhelpful, but most are supportive...