help me

I have been with my boyfriend a little over a month he just got back from a two week trip when he got back he started acting a bit distant.. He has been sick and stuff and his dad has cancer and is going for an operation on thuraday and he has been stressed so I thought that's why. but he today messages saying he has got depression again and he called me and was saying that he started getting it while he was on the trip and that he may not talk to me as much and stuff too.. He s

aid that last time the psychologist told him to distance himself from people for a bit while he is dealing with it and he keeps saying he doesn't want me to be mad or upset or have to go through this because of him..he doesn't want to break up and he said he won't stop talking completely he knows it would be upsetting for me.. I asked him about hanging out and he said he doesn't know..