How to Talk to Your Partner About Your Depression

Your partner might not know what to ask or how to help

Robby Zar
Forge
Published in
5 min readJan 21, 2020

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My whole life I have suffered from a combination of anxiety and depression. After nearly twelve years of marriage, I had hardly spoken about it with anyone other than a handful of therapists. The challenges of parenthood only pushed me further away from my own understanding of the…

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Robby Zar
Forge
Writer for

word luvvah, procrastinator, sometimes-musician, webmonkey, geek, father of two. a part-time artist on a mission to eat more or less cheese. www.partist.com