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What Causes Severe Anxiety And Depression In A Person?

So my husband recently told me he wanted to kill himself, like 3 weeks after we had our fourth child. He has been in therapy recently and starts seeing a psychiatrist in about two weeks. And I am trying to be the supportive wife but damn it is hard, he will stop talking to me for days, and then I sit there and think what have I said or did I say something or not do anything right. I am truly exhausted and don t know what to do. I don t think I can talk to him about it because I am scared that it might trigger a mood or something worse. Kind of stuck between a rock and a bolder, I m the one working and do the day to day things around the house, so I try not to let things show but it s getting harder. I totally understand that this severe anxiety/ depression with bipolar tendencies diagnosis wasn t going to be easy and I m proud that he has addressed it but damn I didn t realize how much it would affect me, to the extent of frustration. It feels like if I don t do everything he asked for especially in the bed room or do so sort of sex everyday, he gets mad, stops talking, I hate feeling like I have to do that stuff to just make him happy or atleast make him feel that i want him. I just don t know what to do, I don t have a lot of time for myself with four kids and a husband, dog , full time job, a household that I m the only one who takes care of it. So I figured I would look into the online thing . So I just wanted to know is this normal to feel this way, is it ok to feel this way, because I m feeling guilty that I am feeling like I can t do this Thank you for your time
Wed, 8 Apr 2020
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Hello,

After thorough evaluation of your description, I agree with you about your autonomy and woman rights first of all. You have all your basic rights to deserve dignity by your husband, which is not present here. You are not there to just satisfy his sex demands and produce children without any affection to you. Your husband is having major mood disorder with possible psychiatric disorder as that of psychosis, and he requires an intensive therapy with expert psychiatrist with medications, counselling sessions and life style modifications.

Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon
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What Causes Severe Anxiety And Depression In A Person?

Hello, After thorough evaluation of your description, I agree with you about your autonomy and woman rights first of all. You have all your basic rights to deserve dignity by your husband, which is not present here. You are not there to just satisfy his sex demands and produce children without any affection to you. Your husband is having major mood disorder with possible psychiatric disorder as that of psychosis, and he requires an intensive therapy with expert psychiatrist with medications, counselling sessions and life style modifications. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Bhagyesh V. Patel, General Surgeon