How does depression affect relationships?
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You start to treat the other person differently, or you tend to neglect them. It can also affect other aspectsof your life, which in turn, affect your relationship. You may start to drink, or mope around not wanting to do anything. if the other person feels like they cannot help you, they may decide that they want out because of the way that they are being treated.
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Lots of ways. I am going to asnwer as if you are refering to moderate to severe depression since you didn't specify. First of all you can probably say good by to sex. Although you may not be very interested if your mate is not motivated enough to bathe. You may lose income if s/he can no longer worker. You probably will also have much less of a social life. Your responsiblities at home will greatly increase as you have to pick up the slack. Emotionally it is very hard to watch someone you love suffer so much. As well as frustrating if you do not understand how dibilitating and painful depression really is. Now for the good news. You can help your mate. Even if the won't go for counseling right away you can go. Why so you can learn effective ways to help him or her. It also gives you an opportunity to let off steam at someone other than your partner. With the proper diagnosis and the proper treatment many people can recover from depression.
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it causes people to be moody. and hateful
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Yes it can. As I explained some where else it has really affected my friend's relationship with her boyfriend and he now thinks he is no good for her and is always upsettig her. He broke up with her because she over reacted about some thing at the end of 2007 and he thought it was him hurting her once again. I have never seen her happier than when she was with him and I have never seen her more distraught than how she is now she is not with him. She has tried to over dose a few times now and I fear if he does not make up with her very soon she will try again.
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it has a big deal with it when ur depressed i guess u can say it hurts not only the relationship but also it hurts the other person knowing that basically ur not satified maybe he or she thinks it is there fault so try to be happy on the outside but cry on the inside or talk about what is bothering u so much
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It tends to turn the non-depressed partner into a quasi-social worker/therapist/psychologist....without any training or experience in those fields it usually ends in tears....
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My husband was unable to deal. I was having a difficult time since I was trying different meds. It took over a year to find one. During that time, he took up with another woman when he was looking outside of himself for what was missing in our relationship. He made a poor choice, as he admits. It's taken us three years to rebuild our marriage after his four year affair was discovered by me.
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Alot of ways. Makes you always sad or upset around your boy/girlfriend/wife/husband. But if it is just a boyfriend/girlfriend issue normally it results in either the guy or the gal pulling the trigger and saying "im tired of your depression its over" normally that is the guy. Or like in most cases the girl says (something close to this) "im depressed its over" of course she makes a big deal over things and makes stuff up. I hope this helped. Im a bad boy hahaha.
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It usually ends in a breakup. Especially if the other person can't be there because they don't know how to. It's sad, I wish people would just stick it out. Often times the depressed person gets better if they get the right help.
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Ok. I had depression for three years, and it was pretty severe. I don't know whether you are talking romantic relationships or friendships, so I'll cover both. Romantic Relationships. When I was depressed, I found that my relationships didn't last very long. To my surprise, I was the one who ended them for the most part. I felt like the relationship was empty. I couldn't really find the strength to be cute and cuddly. When i was dumped, I have a feeling it was because I was using my boyfriend as a support crutch, and not a boyfriend. Friendships I began to attract depressed people. The friends I origanlly had started to get blue. It seemed to me that I started dragging my friends down, slowly. I still had them until it got really bad. Then they told me they couldn't be around me anymore. All in all, relationships take a lot of work, even when everything is going fine. When your depressed, relationships can take 100 times more effort....it's hard. You barely ahve any energy to take care of yourself, let alone take care of someone else.
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