Hi everyone. So right now I am in a six month relationship and my boyfriend lately has been showing very depressive symptoms. He had a serious injury in the winter, and that is when the depression started. He told me he was depressed. It is adding on, and last night he talked about wanting to die sometimes and how he doesn't trust me to speak his mind. He gets really short with me, yells at me to shut up, or else he just doesn't talk to me. He hasn't told anybody but me anything at all. It really scares me because I care about him beyond words, but I don't know what I can do. I myself suffered from depression and got help and I'm managing it, so in a way I know my own form of depression. I just want to encourage my boyfriend that he doesn't deserve this feeling and that he should go get help, but I don't know how to say it without pushing boundaries or sounding like I know how he feels. Does anybody have advice on what I should say? I'm really stuck and I don't want him to hurt himself, he does not deserve that, nor does anybody.

By the way we go to the same university but for the summer we are two hours apart, so everything is through the phone. I wish more than anything I could talk to him in person. Soon enough we'll be moving back to the same town though. I will see him this weekend also, but it is his 21 birthday weekend so I don't want to ruin that by being all sad on him.