When Depression Hurts Your Relationship

How to Regain Intimacy and Reconnect with Your Partner When You're Depressed

By: Shannon Kolakowski PsyD, Craig Malkin - foreword PhD

Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels

When you are feeling depressed, having a loving, supportive relationship with your partner can help you in your path towards healing and creating a happier life. But often depression interferes with your relationship, distancing you from your partner during your time of need.

If you are in the midst of depression, you may worry that you aren't good enough for your partner, or become irritable around them. You may even push them away when you feel like your emotions are beyond your control. In addition, your sense of intimacy may diminish, and your sex life may fizzle as a result of fatigue, medications and feeling disconnected from your partner. The hard truth is that feelings of isolation, worthlessness, and tiredness can all take a hefty toll on your love life. But you don't have to let depression be the demise of your relationship.

Using an integrative approach based in mindfulness, interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), When Depression Hurts Your Relationship offers practical skills to help readers with depression reignite intimacy with their partners.

©2014 Shannon Kolakowski (P)2020 Tantor

Short, honest and incredibly helpful

This book is helpful for the depressed or for the partner of someone who is depressed. It is full of truly helpful information so that you can change the way you approach depression. I recommend this book to anyone in a relationship where depression is involved.

Wish I would have listened to it years ago!

Very easy to understand and what gives what seems like great relationship advice in general.

Great book. Easy listening

Very helpful book. Easy to listen too and the topics were very relative to real life scenarios. Ide listen to it again probably.

5 Stars and big thumbs up

Amazing insight and thought provoking ideas. I really liked how they broke issues down, explained them and then gave suggestions on how to course correct.