How to Help Your Family Member or Friend Defeat Depression

A step by step guide to helping a depressed loved one recover and get their life back

De: Kay Walker

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Are you are a family member or friend of an adult suffering from depression? They may have admitted to having suicidal thoughts. Or perhaps you’ve witnessed them having an unusually low mood. Maybe they are shut down. Maybe they’ve already attempted suicide. Whatever the situation, this guide will help you start to uncover what may be happening to cause these depressive symptoms. And it will provide a plan to help you help your loved one fight their depression. You’ll also learn tangible actions you can take immediately to assist your friend or family member in dealing with difficult life situations and emotions, so you can get them to start to take actions that positively impact their life now and for the future. More specifically, you’ll learn: 1) All the variables and facets of why they are depressed and if they truly are (versus just dealing with sadness). You can then start to piece together what is really going on so you can help them overcome the challenges they’re dealing with. 2) Simple tactics for improving your communication that will strengthen your relationship and will guide them towards discovering and taking positive actions. If reading the last few paragraphs had you expel a small sigh of relief, you’re in the right place. The lack of resources available for friends and family of depressed adults is shocking. And the ones that are available are clinical and marginally helpful. That reality is far worse when you consider this statistic: Suicide is 13 per 100,000 people in the USA. 6 per 100K in the UK and 10 per 100k in Canada. Most people don’t get the help they need. And it can happen very suddenly to families. Depressed people are rash when it comes to dealing with their emotions. The route from depression to suicide can be a short one. This book has everything you'll need to understand, manage and conquer depression with your loved one. It includes tools, checklists and resources that are otherwise hard to come by and not readily available to friends and family anywhere else.When a friend or family member is dealing with depression, it is difficult to know what to do. That's why depression expert Kay Walker created this helpful book. It's was written for anyone who has a depressed adult in their life (Author Kay has a separate book in dealing with teen depression) and wants to help them get well and fully recovery. Or simply better understand what they are dealing with them and guide them to take their own actions to deal with their depression. "People often are paralyzed when their friend or family member becomes depressed and are afraid to say and do the wrong thing," explained Walker. "I decided to give them a strategy on how to help their loved one get well." This step by step guide includes everything you need to know to becoming the loved one's advocate in joining them to fight their depression. Includes handy tools, scripts on what to say, agreements to keep them from harming themselves and more.