This episode we are chatting about how depression can effect you and your relationship. Looking at the inward experience of depression looking at how it effecting you through your emotional and cognitive symptoms such as low mood, negative thought patterns, loss of pleasure, and flat affect. Looking at the impact depression can have on intimate relationships in how you are communicating and how conflicts can be met with unemotional needs. It is important for navigating depression within the relationships for communication and honesty within the language suggestions for expressing depressive symptoms and the support and codependency that can happen within the relationships. There are lots of pathways to find gain help therapy, small steps in re-connections, build a community and patience.

Call to action:

o Validation: “If you’re struggling with depression, or love someone who is, you’re not alone.” Encourage therapy, share resources (Paired app, Gottman cards, 15 min check-in), reach out to friends, or suggest journaling.

o Encourage them to read self-help or encouraging books that will help them dig into who they want to see themselves as. Head on a retreat that helps give a reset to themselves.

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