Have NCed for this. Trying to cut a long story short, my DH has suffered from anxiety and depression his whole adult life. He's a classic high-achieving perfectionist in a high-pressure role and has found many ways to cover up how he's feeling from everyone but me. He suffers low mood, feelings that problems are overwhelming, takes professional failures very personally, feels unnecessarily guilty about stuff, has very low self-esteem etc. Physical symptoms too like tremors, nausea and heart palpitations.
He finds exercise helps but still he is getting to breaking point and has been in tears saying he's not right and can't cope like this any more. His mum has suffered from depression her whole life too; I'm convinced it had a genetic element. After 20 years of this he finally plucked up the courage to visit his GP last week and the GP said it was too early to medicate and he should 'fill his emotional bucket doing things that make him happy'. I could have cried when he came home and told me. FFS nothing really makes him happy as he's constantly depressed!
I think I have persuaded him to go back to another GP and this time I will go with him to support him. He wants to try some medication to break the cycle and I want him to get it. What does he need to say to the GP to take him seriously?!
Thanks for reading such a long post.