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Helping A Family Member With Depression - Articles
How to help when your friend or family member is ill
by
Atlanta Mom ..
Posted
Wed 24 Jun 2009 12:59pm
Like any serious illness, postpartum depression, anxiety and other perinatal mood disorders are sometimes debilitating and require lots of support from family and friends in order to recover. Here is a short article about how you can help when (not if) you find yourself in this situation.
Your friend has a serious illness. That's a cold fact. So
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Family Members Need Help, Too
by
Lisa Frederiksen
Posted
Sun 13 Mar 2011 4:03pm
takes on the rest of the family and how important it is to help family members, as well. One of the outcomes of helping family members is the addict/alcoholic looses... two assessment tools because often what keeps family members from “seeing” that their loved one truly is in trouble (and so are they, the family member) is not understanding how
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3 Reasons to Talk to Your Children About a Family Member’s Alcohol Misuse
by
Lisa Frederiksen
Posted
Sun 18 Oct 2009 10:06pm
never have to know. Unfortunately, when it comes to repeated alcohol abuse and/or alcoholism in a family member, the impact on the family dynamics is such that children do ‘know... children about a family member’s alcohol abuse — even if you don’t have all the answers:
1. There is a ‘current of discord’ (anger, fear, frustration) that flows through a family
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Understanding the Family Member’s Experience
by
Sharon K. Brothers, MSW
Posted
Wed 03 Nov 2010 1:01pm
seems like common knowledge to us when we care for our clients may be completely different for family members.
We know, for example, that our memory impaired clients are trying... of strength, and perhaps now no longer recognizes them, experience daily life in an entirely different way.
Wouldn’t it be enlightening for us to invite our clients’ family members
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How to Spot and Stop a Potential Suicidal Family Member
by
Guardian Angel
Posted
Tue 01 Apr 2008 12:00am
loss. Again, they should be calmed down and help him wholeheartedly instead of blaming him.
Loosing sense of humor
You must be worried if a family member stops from smiling... feelings and problems. All we can do is to know all our family members well, have a constant communication and provide immediate help once we know about it.
In addition, some
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Family Members of an Alcoholic Have Slips & Relapses, Too
by
Lisa Frederiksen
Posted
Tue 18 May 2010 1:16pm
be lurking can help you, the family member of a loved one with an addiction to alcohol (an alcoholic), take steps to avoid it or minimize its impact. Here are a few:
- Taking on Too... understood or recognized is that a family member has slips and relapses, too. And by this, I mean “relapse” as going full-tilt back to old flight-or-flight neural networked coping
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Depression’s Family History
by
Kate McLaughlin.
Posted
Wed 01 Apr 2009 1:33pm
A brain imaging study of several generations of participating families found structural differences in those with a history of depression.
Thinning in the cerebral... had a family history of depression compared with people who did not. The cerebral cortex controls reasoning, planning and mood; and thinning of the cerebral cortex may increase
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Depression’s effects on family
by
BearTwinsMom
Posted
Fri 21 Nov 2008 10:10am
It’s hard to be a parent. It’s even harder to be a parent when you have depression. I am seeing the effects of my depression on my sons and it makes me just want to give... people away because of my depression. No one really cares about me, so why should I care about myself? I know- pathetic sounding and a pity party sounding comment as well.
All I
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Wowzers! And a new family member!
by
Joy ..
Posted
Wed 23 Jun 2010 7:42am
and am trying to dig my way out. The sunshine keeps beckoning me. It's so much easier to blog when the weather is poo!
Well I also mentioned a new family member in my title... this morning for her post-adoptive exam and will ask about doggy depression. Her family had her for a year before returning her to the shelter. She is a very sweet, quiet dog (though she
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