Hi
I haven't posted before, my husband was diagnosed in April of this year and this has been the worst month of my life. It is so far, a living nightmare with his mental state being worse than his physical state.
My husband is now on anti depressants and is so upset each morning that he has actually woken up. We are waiting to be seen by the palliative care team so that he can write his advance care directive.
There are no silver linings at the moment - If we make it through the day without floods of tears its been a good day.
We've had so many discussions about suicide (by various methods) and i just hope that the anti depressants improve things so that he can get back to some sort of enjoying life, but that feels so far away at the moment.
I've never experienced depression before, either personally or in anyone close to me and it is quite overwhelming. The intense and huge sadness is just so all encompassing.
We have always been very independent of "the system" and now feel that we are so needy and weak.
Not much help to the original post, but you are not on your own.
Good luck
I haven't posted before, my husband was diagnosed in April of this year and this has been the worst month of my life. It is so far, a living nightmare with his mental state being worse than his physical state.
My husband is now on anti depressants and is so upset each morning that he has actually woken up. We are waiting to be seen by the palliative care team so that he can write his advance care directive.
There are no silver linings at the moment - If we make it through the day without floods of tears its been a good day.
We've had so many discussions about suicide (by various methods) and i just hope that the anti depressants improve things so that he can get back to some sort of enjoying life, but that feels so far away at the moment.
I've never experienced depression before, either personally or in anyone close to me and it is quite overwhelming. The intense and huge sadness is just so all encompassing.
We have always been very independent of "the system" and now feel that we are so needy and weak.
Not much help to the original post, but you are not on your own.
Good luck
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