[Mbluish]

My husband has been diagnosed with depression. He’s talked a lot about feeling he needs to just be alone and get away from everything to see how he feels. He’s not sleeping well and thinks he will sleep better away (and feels he can sort out other things). He told me this morning that his therapist told him he should go away somewhere alone for a week. He said he agrees. Is this a normal suggestion from a therapist? I don’t ask about his therapy but he does bring it up. Just some things he has told me don’t seem like things a therapist would say.

[possum220]

I dont think anybody can tell you if this a normal thing for a therapist to say or not. Some people do need time to get away and sort things out in their head and they can find it helpful. Do you think your husband will be safe on his own for a week?

[CANDC]

Mbluish, I am not sure what your husband needs but if your husband is saying that they want to be away from it all, what can the therapist do but agree?

Does your husband talk about anything that makes you feel they may not be safe all alone?

Do you have any feelings about him doing that that are painful?

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[Mbluish]

@CANDC I don’t worry that he will hurt himself, that is not the place he is in. The way he made it seem was that the therapist told him to do it. I guess that he may said he wanted to go and she agreed, just not that she suggested he go.

[CANDC]

It strikes me a little strange the way your husband framed it. More likely is he kept mentioning wanting to get away and so the therapist agreed. But no one will probably know exactly what happened in therapy.