Close relationship with someone who hasn't disclosed they take an anti depressant?

[Crunchymum]

It's a family member, who I am very close to.

Why hasn't she said anything?

I understand privacy and the fact she may or want to burden me but I feel sad she hasn't wanted to confide in my for whatever reason.

It's not easy to talk about depression. Maybe plonking the meds down were her way of trying to open the conversation.

I happily pull my anti depressants out of my bag in front of anybody. I think it no different from pulling out an inhaler. If it prompts a conversation from someone I'm fine with that. I don't want to make a big deal out of it by Having A Conversation though.

Out of interest, how do you know they were antidepressants?

Personal, private, everything they said.

She may find it too upsetting to want to talk about or she may be so used to it that she doesn't feel the need to talk about it or she may simply not like talking about her health issues. Lots of people don't. My son talks openly about going for a shit, my dad tiptoes away to the bathroom: I don't feel offended with him for keeping his bodily functions away from me; it's just his preferred mode.

MH isn't something you have to "come out" about, any more than you have to come out about your gynaecological issues or the state of your blood pressure.

What I slightly suspect from your OP, is that the indication that she may be medicated for MH issues makes you think of her as a different person and that this is why you feel it almost as a betrayal. If so, don't go there. JUST. DON'T. She is who she is and whether she takes this medication or that makes no difference.

Incidentally How did you know they were Antidepressants?

2 weeks ago I was prescribed sertraline - no one knows, actually that's not true my dd was with me at the appointment as she had one just before but all she knows is that they are to stop me being upset and angry.

I haven't told dp or anyone else because I've hidden how I actually feel and they've got enough on their plates without me adding to it.