22. Know that your loved one isn’t always going to want to vent. We deal with this in our head 24/7 sometimes we simply don’t want to talk about it. It isn’t anything against you, we just need a distraction sometimes.
3. Know that the symptoms of depression are not personal towards you. Depressed people tend to lash out at the ones we love the most. These outbursts are the illness talking, not your loved one. Try not to take it personally.
When it comes to people with depression and other debilitating mental illnesses and disorders, you cannot treat these relationships transactionally. They are disabled. You will have to be okay with giving more and doing more. Why is this a hard concept to grasp?