How to Support a Partner With Depression Without Burning Out Yourself
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You are their partner, not their therapist -- and that distinction matters more than you think. Support means staying close, encouraging professional help, AND protecting your own energy. You can hold space without holding everything. Keep seeing your friends, keep your routines, keep your own mental health appointments. A depleted partner can't support anyone. Loving someone through depression is a marathon, and marathons require pacing.
The point
Stay close and encourage professional help, but protect your own energy -- a depleted partner helps no one.
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