Update on my wife.
It has been a rough two weeks for my wife.
She made me make sure she was up when I got home because she couldn't find her appointment card for the doctor. She called and found out it was today at 10 am.
The doctor up her dose to 100 mg of Zoloft. What I didn't know until she told the doctor was that she doesn't want to think. She sits on the couch and the TV is on and she is surfing the laptop BUT she says anything that takes concentration is hard for her to do. She says she just doesn't want to think.
She did work a couple days this past week and she is looking for another job. She told me she is forcing herself to do that because she is afraid that if she doesn't go to work soon she is going to get worse.
Her mom and my Step mom in Law told her ( they both don't know how bad her depression is) that she can collect unemployment and she can take sometime to relax. I am sure they mean well and don't want her to be a bum of some sort ( not like my one brother who quit his job and hasn't worked in 3 months.) but they tell her if she wants to wait until the weather improves there is nothing wrong with that.
Because she lost employment she hasn't been able to see her counselor. We have to pay out of pocket and well we need to place money into paying bills.
My wife is also making the effort to write the weekly letter to our neighbors in the condo assoc. but no one has responded. This week is looking online to find info on the benefits of pet ownership. but the way she is feeling she ends up staring at the floor or wall. She is getting distracted easily.
The think is we don't know how to ask the Doctor about helping us with getting a script for an emotional support animal.
Some good news: My wife's blood pressure averages about 120/70.
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your post just comforted me, so thanks.
thank you for letting me know. my best to you, cwydro.Times can be tough.
I liked your post to DM.
Seriously. It will do you both good. If it seems like too much, start out small and increase the distance weekly. Exercise is a great stress reliever. Just don't let her sit or lie around all day!
Pulling for you!
It's amazing how much exercise can help with not only physical, but mental health.
The problem is trying to get someone who is feeling depressed to want to exercise.
D-man, go out and buy a couple cheap pedometers, like 7-10 bucks each, one for you and one for your wife. This may help her if you do it together. Wear it the first day, and just do whatever you normally do. The next day, try to increase your steps, something easy, like an extra 100 steps. Keep increasing your steps, daily at first, and then weekly, until you are getting 10,000-12,000 steps per day.
I have seen something simple like this help so many people. 
I'm going to do that on the days when the weather won't cooperate! 
