“You have to walk on eggshells around him”: Female partners’ perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of dealing with a male partner’s depression—A qualitative study

• Maja Stiawa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: maja.stiawa@uni-ulm.de

  Affiliation Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0852-9796

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• Paul Nickel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliations Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Department of Psychiatry I, Ulm University, ZfP Südwürttemberg, Germany, 

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• Gironimo Krieg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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• Katharina Senk,

  Roles Writing – review & editing, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, 

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• Reinhold Kilian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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• Natalie Lamp,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

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• Maria Panzirsch,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, District Hospital Donauwörth, Donauwörth, Germany

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• Silvia Krumm

  Roles Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliations Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leipzig Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, 

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