MIL goes through seasonal depression and is quite poorly with it. She loses all her appetite, energy and doesn’t want to do anything or go anywhere. We noticed this last year and have kept an eye on her this year and seen her mental health decline as we’ve been coming out of summer
she has been to the docs and they prescribed her anti depressants but she refuses to take them (this also happened last year). She goes through all the side effects and says she doesn’t want to take them even though she’s on other medication for other illnesses that also have side effects but she’s chosen to ignore them. She has said no to therapy and also we bought her a happy lamp to which she said she won’t use it
its like she’s just accepted this is the way things are and this is how she feels and nothing we say or do convinces her otherwise.
I’m currently 39 weeks pregnant also have a toddler so there isn’t much I can do and DH, bro in law and FIL all just get really annoyed at her because she refuses to listen to anyone
How can we help her? And suggestions would be great