How to help when your friend or familymember is illby
Atlanta Mom ..
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...
When One FamilyMember Suffers, All Sufferby
Sig Y.
get back to health.
Whether the familymember is struggling with addiction, depression, a trauma, or one...
The family is one unit. When one member suffers...
How to Spot and Stop a Potential Suicidal FamilyMemberby
Guardian Angel
Photo credited to AprilM2107
A familymember who committed suicide is very hard to accept... that a familymember is not serious about it, do some actions before blaming yourself in the end. You must stop...
FamilyMembers of an Alcoholic Have Slips & Relapses, Tooby
Lisa Frederiksen
that a relapse may be lurking can help you, the familymember of a loved one with an addiction to alcohol (an... is that a familymember has slips and relapses, too. And by this, I mean “relapse” as going full-tilt back to old...
FamilyMembers Need Help, Tooby
Lisa Frederiksen
of the family and how important it is to helpfamilymembers, as well. One of the outcomes of helpingfamily..., I also wanted to include two assessment tools because often what keeps familymembers from “seeing...
Helping a Handicapped FamilyMember Stay Fitby
John !.
This is a guest post by Nan Gibbons. Life in a wheelchair can be difficult. Whether you’re temporarily wheelchair bound or permanently disabled, daily activities are no longer as easy as they once were. With the many adju
Understanding the FamilyMember’s Experienceby
Sharon K. Brothers, MSW
for us to invite our clients’ familymembers in to share their stories? Wouldn’t it help our caregivers gain... may be completely different for familymembers.
We know, for example, that our memory impaired clients are trying...
How to Deal if Depression Runs in Your Familyby
Susan K.
. It becomes even more of a problem when two or more familymembers suffer from depression, simply... is that depression is indeed genetically passed down, and it isn't at all uncommon for immediate familymembers...
What's The Difference ?
A familymember has been diagnosed with depression, but her symptoms seems more like anxiety... overdosing (may have been a cry for help). It seems like a distinction should be made prior to medication, and she is not responding to sleeping pills and depression meds.
Patrick...crap
I feel helpless
How do you help a familymember who is depressed. I know she needs the help yet she is refusing and I see her deteriorating daily. I feel helpless and do not know what else to do. Does anybody know where I can begin to hep this person?
lissa regniercrap
Depression: How to Cope with the Storm in Your Head
your familymember or loved one needs to make a call on your behalf. It may also be helpful to tell trusted individuals the signs and symptoms of when you are depressed and in need of help...
After a recent bout of depression I thought about a post that one of our members, David, wrote...crap
Treating Someone Who Doesn't Want Treatment
It's a familiar situation: a familymember or friend is very depressed, maybe even psychotic... the person to get help. Family and friends must get involved. Additionally, the family....
So what can a parent do when their 19-year old son is depressed and/or abusing heroin? In this case, in the absence...crap
Psychotherapy and Grief after Suicide
to believe that therapy didn’t help. I myself have had many family suicides, and I found that therapy... of therapy helps people re-arrange the stories they are telling themselves. So, for instance, for depressed...
I read on this site that a Dutch study showed “that psychotherapy doesn’t work” with families...crap
if you have had 1 drink with a small amount of alcohol are you safe to take cymbalta?
I have a familymember who is on cymbalta, and I am about to see a Dr. reguarding some depression/perimenopausal/aadd? (not sure what the diagnosis will be) and I was curious about the cymbalta. Is this something I should talk to my doctor about. I have been diagnosed since 1990 with depression, however the more they learn...crap
Check out my poetry at MyBipolarConnection
I found this website through NAMI. Although I live with depression, I have numerous familymembers with different mental illnesses and that is how I ended up at the bipolar site first. Check...'s a struggle these days. The economy, family pressures, finances, work, etc... it all adds up. But I refuse...crap
How do you get the person to realize they have a problem?
My father is bipolar (as well as other familymembers)and does not always take his meds. I see.... She was diagnosed as postpartum blues and given antidepressants. Everyone noticed a difference in her. It helped... of sleep a day, to being depressed that nothing goes her way, to wanting to be left alone by everyone...crap