Following on from a sequence of high stress/ traumatic events my partner has done something really awful. Realistically it can only be explained by him a) having fallen into such a severe depression that he temporarily lost all sense of judgement, empathy, and insight, or b) he's a shit person and I don't know him at all. Given the context and the fact that we have children together I've hung a lot on it being the former, however he had his first appointment with the GP today and all he did was give him some leaflets and tell him to come back next week for a review. I felt sure he'd get a diagnosis and at the very least be waitlisted for therapy. It's made me wonder if he didn't tell the GP the whole story, or if maybe he's not actually depressed and just did what he did because he's a bad person. He took the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 at home and his scores indicated severe depression and moderate anxiety but he said the GP didn't do any screening questionnaires at the appointment. He says that he's already feeling better because of the lifestyle changes he's made recently, which is great, but surely a years worth of depression which lead to him doing something extremely hurtful and destructive can't just evaporate after a week of lifestyle changes? My own judgement doesn't seem very trustworthy here as the depression explanation is really the only thing stopping me from leaving right now so I'm desperate for it to be true.