How to Help Someone with Depression
How to help someone with depression? If you have a friend or family member that is suffering from depression, you may not always be able to show that you love and care about them. One day they may be perfectly fine and the very next day, they will be sad and may push you away. It is important for you to know, as their close trusted friend, you can help them having a shorter periods of depression.
Mental illness is as real as physical illness and your friends needs you, when they are depressed. Having someone to care for you, when people are going through such a hard time means really a lot, more than you can ever imagine. And although depression can be one sided at time, by helping your friend through such ordeal, you are strengthening their mental states, and your own. Here are some ways to care for some loved ones suffering from depression.
1. Help them with their chores and duties: When someone is suffering from depression they may feel like, they are slowing down and the world around is getting faster. By landing a helping hand in their daily routine chores: like laundry, sorting of mail, doing their dishes, etc you're taking a huge weight of their shoulders, because otherwise they will feel overwhelmed. Your help also gives them a calmer and healthier environment.
2. Take a walk with them: Sometimes taking a walk with them is really helpful, because for a depressed person going outside means to be in the sunshine, which will manufacture vitamin D and alleviate depression.
Being barefoot in the dirt helps ground the body and reverse the effects of living in the world of EMS. And digging into the soil can act as an antidepressant; since there is a strain of bacterium in the soil that triggers the release of Ceratin. Which decrease anxiety and makes you feel better.
3. Encourage them to focus on self-care: Depressed people often stop caring for themselves, getting a haircut, showering, going to the doctor for routine checkups is too hard, and they feel like that, they don't deserve to be taken care of really well. Having encouragement from others, helps a lot. Without others the depressed person will soon snowball into farther depression and think of themselves as worthless. Being proactive around them, and telling them to do the stuff they like, while you do the dishes and other similar dull chores for them.
4. Compliment them: People suffering from depression often have very low self-esteem. Help them overcome the self-loathing that they have, and give them specific sincere compliments. Being specific is very important here, because this way they are more likely to remember later.
One thoughtful genuine compliment is more powerful, than ten careless ones. Because they feel more like flattery. Put your heart into what you say.
5. Ask them to help you understand what they are feeling: If you're friend is able to articulate what is he suffering from, it will help immensely, both of you to understand, what he is going through and how to overcome it. Feeling alone for a person who is suffering from depression is common, and anything that elevates that loneliness will eventually help in fighting depression.
Having someone to talk to you, about their depression. Makes them realize that they are not, as alone as they think they are, and that others actually cares for them.
Do you have some helpful tips on fighting depression? Share your thoughts in comments section below. If you like this article and want us to write about a topic that you like, please lets know, and don't forget to share, thanks.
2. Take a walk with them: Sometimes taking a walk with them is really helpful, because for a depressed person going outside means to be in the sunshine, which will manufacture vitamin D and alleviate depression.
Being barefoot in the dirt helps ground the body and reverse the effects of living in the world of EMS. And digging into the soil can act as an antidepressant; since there is a strain of bacterium in the soil that triggers the release of Ceratin. Which decrease anxiety and makes you feel better.
3. Encourage them to focus on self-care: Depressed people often stop caring for themselves, getting a haircut, showering, going to the doctor for routine checkups is too hard, and they feel like that, they don't deserve to be taken care of really well. Having encouragement from others, helps a lot. Without others the depressed person will soon snowball into farther depression and think of themselves as worthless. Being proactive around them, and telling them to do the stuff they like, while you do the dishes and other similar dull chores for them.
4. Compliment them: People suffering from depression often have very low self-esteem. Help them overcome the self-loathing that they have, and give them specific sincere compliments. Being specific is very important here, because this way they are more likely to remember later.
One thoughtful genuine compliment is more powerful, than ten careless ones. Because they feel more like flattery. Put your heart into what you say.
5. Ask them to help you understand what they are feeling: If you're friend is able to articulate what is he suffering from, it will help immensely, both of you to understand, what he is going through and how to overcome it. Feeling alone for a person who is suffering from depression is common, and anything that elevates that loneliness will eventually help in fighting depression.
Having someone to talk to you, about their depression. Makes them realize that they are not, as alone as they think they are, and that others actually cares for them.
Do you have some helpful tips on fighting depression? Share your thoughts in comments section below. If you like this article and want us to write about a topic that you like, please lets know, and don't forget to share, thanks.
posted by Free education for All @ June 28, 2017
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