When Your Spouse is Depressed
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
When you and your spouse are in a stressful season, the chances of one of you struggling with depression are much higher than normal. How do you navigate through that type of situation? John, Erin and Greg share why it's worth fighting for your marriage when one of you is struggling with depression.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.0 | There are times in marriage when both of you are exhausted and if it's one of |
| 0:40.4 | those seasons for you, the chances of you battling things like anxiety and |
| 0:44.9 | depression are going to be much higher than normal. Now if you or someone you know |
| 0:48.7 | is facing one of those kinds of difficult circumstances right now, we want |
| 0:52.4 | to offer some hope. I'm John Fuller. I'm joined by my focus colleagues, Dr. |
| 0:57.0 | Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron Smalley. Aaron, there are a lot of married |
| 1:01.7 | people today reporting that either they're battling depression or they have a |
| 1:05.4 | spouse who's battling depression. What can he tell us about that? I mean |
| 1:10.0 | right now in our country, our culture, there's a lot of depression. It's you |
| 1:14.8 | know, research is saying 19 million Americans are currently going through |
| 1:19.1 | some sort of depression, some type of depression. 42% of people name |
| 1:24.3 | depression as a major challenge in their marriage. It's interesting because I |
| 1:28.1 | just found this statistic that says married men show up less depressed, have |
| 1:35.2 | lower rates of depression symptoms than unmarried men, but married women do |
| 1:40.6 | not have lower rates of depression symptoms than unmarried women. So it's |
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