Howdy!
My girlfriend of 4-5 months is clinically depressed; I think she's been on medication for a couple of years, and she meets with a caretaker at least once a week. She's a nice girl most of the time, but now and then she gets really low and hates herself; sometimes she even wants to hurt herself, to kill herself. At those moments, I have to restrain her by force.
My experience with stuff like this stretches only to my semi-depression I had before, which wasn't to this degree at all and I really don't know how to handle it. I try to tell her that's she's better than she thinks, but she won't hear that. So I guess that's not the way to go, I'd better just try to get her distracted.
She's got problems with feeling worthless and letting her imagination run free, plus, she hardly ever wants to do anything, and once when she was low, she told me she wasn't worthy of sexual pleasure; she thinks it's disgusting for her to enjoy it.
I'm mostly writing this because it lets me structure my thoughts a bit more, and hopefully you guys will have some input!
My girlfriend of 4-5 months is clinically depressed; I think she's been on medication for a couple of years, and she meets with a caretaker at least once a week. She's a nice girl most of the time, but now and then she gets really low and hates herself; sometimes she even wants to hurt herself, to kill herself. At those moments, I have to restrain her by force.
My experience with stuff like this stretches only to my semi-depression I had before, which wasn't to this degree at all and I really don't know how to handle it. I try to tell her that's she's better than she thinks, but she won't hear that. So I guess that's not the way to go, I'd better just try to get her distracted.
She's got problems with feeling worthless and letting her imagination run free, plus, she hardly ever wants to do anything, and once when she was low, she told me she wasn't worthy of sexual pleasure; she thinks it's disgusting for her to enjoy it.
I'm mostly writing this because it lets me structure my thoughts a bit more, and hopefully you guys will have some input!