The Truth About Loving Someone With MDD (Major Depressive Disorder)
The truth about loving someone with Major Depressive Disorder; it is never going to be easy. I have struggled with depression for most of my life; always being scared to ask for help in fear that I would be told it wasn't real or that I was "attention seeking". I was in my early 20's when I finally sought help, I was diagnosed with MDD (Major Depressive Disorder) & C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and when this intake therapist told me this, I broke down in her office because for the first time in my life; I had this validation that this was real and I wasn't just making all of this up in a desperate attempt for attention like I had always feared would be what was said to me. I was 23 when they diagnosed me. Over the course of the next 3 years, I ended up in a dangerously abusive relationship and was forced by my partner to go off of the anti-depressant and to stop seeing my therapist because "they were only putting lies into my head ...
