I have a male colleague who I fear is suffering from depression. He's a great, intelligent, funny and warm person generally but he can go into these dark moods from time to time and he's in a particularly bad one at the moment. Addictive sort of personality - one week it's all health foods, vitamins, juice, no tea, coffee etc and the next it's binge drinking, smoking not eating properly etc. Has started not coming into work - takes days off and just lies in bed. Doesn't do anything constructive with his time off although he's very capable. Started fitting a new bathroom in his house in April, got on well but never finished it off so he cant even take a shower. I've tried talking to him (we're very good friends) and offered to help him finish off tiling but he just gets in a mood and says he wants to be alone. Next thing he's complaining about being lonely.
Have any of you ever dealt with a similar situation and if so how?
2006-10-17
22:52:25
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