Depression Advice

[Maris1111]

My other half currently works for a now doomed area of the public sector and is on the final year of training with them, his training contract runs out next year and there is no prospect of a job continuing there and he has really enjoyed it. He is the biggest worrier about things anyway and he has been gradually becoming more depressed with the lack of morale in his work environment and concern about the future.

He is contantly snapping and getting angry with me then apologising, he talks about killing himself although I'm not thinking he'll do anything, although just recently when his computer lost a few hours of work I had to stop him hitting himself over the head with a glass bottle which was pretty scary. He read an article on male depression yesterday and identified with just about everything there.

I am insisting that he goes to the doctor but he is convinced that he won't get another job if depression goes on his medical record and I can't persuade him that that would be discrimination or anything otherwise. I don't know what to do next

[ponjee]

i just said i will stop. do we not understand english?!

[naomi24]

Yes we do - and good.

[RATTER15]

Try hebrew my child :-)

[RATTER15]

Sorry Maris, my postings are inappropriate.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Maris, I have lived with the effects depression has had on my other half.
It seems to me that you need to get him to go to a doctor or a counsellor and talk out his feelings and fears. He seems to me to be panicking about not being able to support his dependants and possibly getting into a financial mess. You need to be strong and help him find a solution. What type of training is he doing? Will it be appropriate in the private sector? What area in GB are you?