He'll be ok! It will take the time it takes. Marica is right, don't take the leave now, save it for the holidays or whatever. There really isn't much you can do but feel sorry for him & when my wife was doing just that it just pissed me off! I had to go through that real depression & pull my ass up & out of it on my own. For me, I used my anger, at myself, the disease or whatever to drive myself to wellness or at least something better than the state I was in! One day I remember slouching up the stairs, chin down, chest in, shoulders forward, get the picture? Just dragging myself up those stairs! It hit me that if I was going to get out of my real funk, I was going to have to fake it first! I remembered something from one of my old Anthony Robbins tapes, to feel better about oneself, you must walk as if you are the most confident, proud person you can be! Chin up, chest out, shoulders back, smile! I actually started laughing at myself, but the whole thing worked somehow! Now I don't mean to say thats all it took but it was a heck of a start in the right direction! I marched over to the kitchen and choked and coughed down something more to eat, one more time leaning over the kitchen sink. One meal at a time, one glass of water at a time, finally the peg came out! The old saying comes to mind, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time! It can be done! Don't lose faith in him or yourself. Go to work & let him work through it. He'll be ok!