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Is my dad possibly depressed?
My dad is about 50.
recently (within the past 2-3 months) he's just been so pessimistic.
but.. it's something more than that. He's always getting onto my brother, he yells and gets angry pretty much once a day, if I'm around I get to be a target. It's getting worse and worse, his bouts of anger then sulking. I couldn't sleep and caught him up at like midnight and he seemed all sulky/angry then too.
I know he's had trouble sleeping, so yeah... It's so hard to explain. just that he's always getting angry, he does have a chronic disease so that is always on his mind too... I just.. I don't know anymore.
I'm not hurt directly by his comments, none of my family is, because we know it's not true. But, nothing kills a happy mood like having to hear a bunch of yelling.
He'll bitch about something just to do it. He'll find any little thing. It's more than just being a bastard. It's different. My mom says he's crazy, my brother says he's crazy, I say "Someone help me figure this out."
He wasn't always like this, and he's NOT always like this. But it's getting closer and closer to it being that way. I've noticed something just different about the way he looks recently, not bad, or good, but... different..
Just the other day he said, "Everything from the government killing my freedom, the rain killing my crops, and me.. killing myself." (he was referring to smoking, etc. but it's still worrisome.)
I just don't know.
Sorry for it being so long, but I can't explain it right.
help?
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Just be nicer to him. Lots of families are like this. You say he's only like this once a day, well my dad is like this everyday all day. He didn't used to be so I don't know. Things are probably just hard for him right now. Don't go talk to him because that will just push him away. Just ask him to go out to eat with you, or to go fishing or something that he enjoys. Get your mom and brother to do the same. Don't listen to them calling him crazy and stuff. It's not true.
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That's nice that you are so worried about your father. If I were you, I would just say, "Dad, I'm really worried, you seem really sad & angry a lot lately, and its really upsetting me because I don't like to see you angry and hurt all the time. Can I do something to help you? I love you & want to do anything I can to make it better." .. I would say something like that, he also just turned 50 right? well a lot of old people hate that 50 year mark. my mom is turning 50 next year, and i'm dreading that day more then anything. when my dad turned 50 this year, she was crying. so hahah maybe hes upset about that too? just ask him, i'm sure he'll be really touched that you care so much.
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