Month 4: Trying to find stability with suicidal depression

Finally back on track with health updates! Overall, the news is good, it's just been mentally (and physically) exhausting so far. Still, I've come a long way.

In my last update, I shared that I was working on some things in my marriage.

I love privacy so I won't go into a ton more detail, but I've learned a lot about how relationship dynamics can affect both partners' health over time. Sometimes it's from baggage we brought to the relationship, sometimes from living in survival mode or bad habits we've fallen into.

Since my last post, we've both been working in and outside of therapy to figure out how and why we're struggling and what's needed to move forward.

Mental health update (short recap)

I'm happy to say that I'm back to a stable-ish place. It's been a bit of a journey experimenting with medication, but in general I feel better about where I am and what I'm doing to work on myself.

I had a bit of a scare with some antidepressant side affects and am currently working to manage and treat some of the more physical symptoms of major depression.

But mostly the fog as lifted significantly and it's nice to be able to get out and be social again.

If this is enough of an update for you, thank you for reading. If not, you can finish the full update on my blog.