The Trail Blazing Woman welcomes you to into 2010.
This can be a year that sees you regain your emotional energy and freedom and gain understanding so you can confidently manage your partner’s depression. You can also tap into endless resources and possibilities that will turn your situation around. Sounds too good to be true?
Let me share with you my Insight 6 of 10 on managing depression within a committed relationship.
If you have missed the previous insights please visit the blog library on my website www.trailblazingwoman.com.au – these insights will assist you find strategies that will change your life and relationship permanently.
Insight 6: Don’t allow the depression affecting your partner to dictate how you will live your life and raise your family.
Does it feel like your world has been turned upside down? I know that feeling well!
Depression inevitably carries with it a range of emotions that can be very debilitating for the sufferer and their family. As a matter of fact it may feel as though depression is running your household.
I have some good news for you. It does not have to be that way. Depression in itself does not have the power to dictate to you how you will live your life and raise your family.
Rather, you have the power within you to create the environment you desire in your home through your mindset and the emotional choices you make.
There are answers, strategies and tools you can use to keep yourself and your family in balance while your partner recovers their wellbeing. This is why I strongly recommend that you do not go through this journey alone. You will need all the help you can get.
Neutralisers for depression: Choose to keep life as normal as possible and keep family and friends close:
Keep the routine of life and family as normal as possible. This is one of the greatest gifts you can give your partner and is a therapy in itself.
Take the lead and get on with the normal things of life, responding normally, planning normally and communicating normally within the family unit. This “normality” can neutralise many of the depressed emotions that can touch you and your family while your partner is recovering.
Whilst family and friends might not fully understand what is happening within your life and family at this time, if you are used to having them close then keep them close. This can also be a great neutraliser for your home life. Their love, laughter and light heartedness will bring you renewed energy.
Christine McRae, The Trail Blazing Woman, [email protected]
©January 2010, The Trail Blazing Woman
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