Hello everyone. This is my first time being apart of something like this and my first time really talking about my experiences with others conserning my wifes depression. She was diagnosed with depression not long after we were married. She was prescribed some medication that at first we thought were helping. Over time my began to show worse symptoms then before the medication so we decided to go off the medication. This was a tough choice for me, because she did not want to see a doctor before going off the medication. I was able to talk her into going and seeing a therapist to talk about her depression. This helped initially but my wife did not feel that she was getting any benifit out of the session so she stopped going. Recently she has been doing better about understanding how her depression is impacting our relationship and has been making steps to ensure it is not hurting us. There are times when she sinks into a depressive lull that is hard to get her out of time but she has been doing better. I am hoping that by joining this group I can find others in the same situations and gain strength and encouragment from each of you.