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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can get therapy online with Talkspace or something similar.  It may not be as good as seeing a therapist face to face, but they are licensed and it will help to at least be able to talk about the issues whenever it's convenient.  In case it's seasonal affective disorder, you can get her a "happy light", several options on Amazon.  The hormones could be giving her fatigue.  Is she willing at all to see a doctor? Even going for a walk will give her some endorphins.  Just try to take baby steps. I would not do anything rash like divorce or anything that scares her more, like PPs are suggesting. A mother's helper or housekeeper might lighten the burden some too.[/quote]

Baby steps are just that and it sounds as if OP needs instead to get crisis help. As in, getting wife extensive and immediate help from blood work to posdible new meds to talk therapy--in person. Intensive and full-time for a certain period. He needs doctors to send his wife to inpatient care or provide real crisis treatment, more than incremental steps. Walks, light, hormonal testing could all be part of it but this is not something OP should be trying to cobble together bit by bit on his own. His poor DW is non-functional and he's at the end of his rope so he shouldn't be trying to assemble care--that's burning him out already. [/quote]

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