Caring for bedridden depression?
I am concerned about my wife. Over the last 18 months she's had several bouts of depression that have put her in bed for up to a week at a time. They seem to be getting more and more frequent. She's not suicidal, but she will self medicate (over taking lorazipan so that she's slurring her words or muttering strangely to our children), sleep for 20 hours a day and lash out at me over my concern for her well being. She's currently the patient of a psychopharmacologist who doesn't so much treat my wife as medicate her. My wife is unwillingly to talk to a therapist despite my pleadings. We have 2 children and the last thing I want to do is break up our family over this. It's a violation of her privacy if I go around her back and let her psychopharmacologist know what's happening and ask for their help, I'm just not sure what else to do. I feel like I'm trying to lead my partner to water, but she's determined to buck and bite me. Any advice at all would be welcome. Thank you.
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