My husband has been experiencing very serious mental health problems this past year, while I have been pregnant with and given birth to our first child. He has been suicidal, abusing alcohol, had one conviction for being drunk in control of a vehicle and now awaiting trial for dangerous driving (he had been drinking, fortunately not enough to be over the limit, but it was certainly a factor in the collision - he went into the back of a parked car, no-one hurt thank goodness but our car was a write-off).
I am now staying with my parents with our 12 week-old daughter, while he is staying with his parents. He is seeing a counsellor through Mind and is on a waiting list for NHS mental health services. He has been taking 100mg Sertraline for over 6 weeks now. None of this really seems to be helping though. Since I went to my parents he has just seemed quite numb. Often when I talk to him he mentions that he is still thinking about suicide/still thinks it is a more likely outcome than him recovering and us being able to be living together as a family again.
I'm feeling quite hopeless about the whole situation and I just wondered if anyone has been in a similar position or has any words of advice or reasons for optimism?