My lovely partner has gone through a bout of very severe depression and started treatment in January.
He is on Citalopram 20mg.
About two weeks after taking it he showed a lot of changes. The depression became more manageable because he stopped being so tearful and he was more able to concentrate at work but it seems to have also taken away all his good emotions.
He said he felt numb inside for a few weeks, said he wasn't sure if he loved me anymore, said he felt dead inside.
Then he went to one counselling session (only his 4th one since the illness started) and came home very angry and distant and said very matter of factly that he was sure he didn't love me and he was leaving. He left the next day and that was a month ago.
I begged him to explain to me, he said "nothing will ever change". I was unaware anything needed to change! He begged him to come to 2 -3 counselling sessions with me in the hope of some explanation and refused. I cried and clung on to him and he was like a block of ice and said he didn't feel any response to my emotions.
He is now wanting to meet on Tuesday to separate finances and "get it over with".
I have no idea what to do or think.
I am not sure if it is the Citalopram or if he really stopped loving me. He won't explain. He very clearly says he feel no emotions at all, neither happy ones nor sad ones yet he fails to see the lack of logic in ending our 3 year relationship whilst in a state where he dos not know his own feelings.
Can a person really not have any feelings?
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HopelesslyDevotedToWhat · 04/04/2014 15:21
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