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When your man's got the blues

by Susan Quilliam
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  1. Start with a visit to the GP. If antidepressants are prescribed, support your man to keep to the dosage over the months it will take for these to have an effect.

  2. List the factors that may contribute to his depression - job loss, exam failure, financial problems - and help him to take action.

  3. Read Undoing Depression by Richard O'Connor (Berkley Publishing Group, £12.95) and Men and Depression by Theresa Freunds-Chung and Robin Gray (Harper Collins, £9.99).

  4. Contact MINDinfoline (tel: 08457 660 163) for information and support.

  5. Keep telling him - and yourself - that in the vast majority of cases, depression is treatable. If you can help your man understand that however bad he's feeling, he can be cured, then he won't lose hope. And if he doesn't lose hope, then he will almost certainly recover.



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