I (23F) and my partner (20F) have been together for almost 3 years. Recently, she’s been hitting a huge depression slump that has made her get behind in school, not go into work and rarely wants to be social with anyone except me. Tonight, everything was fine until she started playing a game and suddenly said, “I’m so shit, I’m never going to amount to anything. This is something I want to do with my life but what’s the point, my life isn’t worth living.”
She’s always talked about her dream of starting a gaming company for lgbtqia+ people like us and us running it together. Later she laid in bed and suddenly said, “I’ve lost interest in trying to build a gaming company, I want to drop out and just work full time now. I’m never going to be able to do it anyways so I might as well quit while I’m ahead to avoid any disappointment.” She is insisting these are her genuine thoughts but I don’t think they are and it’s just the depression talking which I’m guilty of having and saying things like that as well. I’m wondering if there’s something I can do to help her or something I can set up for her to feel inspired again. Or is this something I really can’t help with at all? She is attending therapy but I just wanted to see if there’s one thing that can do in between sessions to help. 😓