If someone is suffering from depression should you help them?!


Question: And what happens if they dont want help and hide their depression? and is depression that serious that someone might end their own life?


Answers: And what happens if they dont want help and hide their depression? and is depression that serious that someone might end their own life?

Yes you should definitely help. I've just been diagnosed with depression and have not told any of my friends apart from one old friend from university. I feel really lonely and isolated and sometimes resentful that my friends don't understand when I'm telling them about my worries. I don't tell them about my condition because they are not understanding. They all seem to say 'you'll be all right' and brush me off. And yes, I have felt like suicide in the past few weeks. If it weren't for Lifeline and the Adult Mental Health Services, I think I would have hurt myself by now. So even if all you can offer is a sympathetic ear, please do so as it could mean the difference between someone hurting themself and hanging in there to get some help.

Depression sucks, I have had it all my life, and I don't like to discuss it in great detail, as I don't see any results from this. I just take every day as it comes and hope to find a way out of this life without letting too many people down

There are many forms of depression and it can be a truly life altering thing. People need support and mental health advice as depression that gets out of control can ruin a persons life. If someone feels that depressed they may consider ending there own life! Be there for them and offer them all the support you can when they come through thios at the end you will see how they appreciate your help and support

yes

a lot of people with it will tend to hide it. Talk to them if theyre family or a friend. not all depression leads to suicidal thoughts but it is very likely that it could progress or develop to that. let them know you care and worry and tell them u think talking it out will help them. many don't want help but really sometimes you need to drag them to a therapist or something. i used to be against getting help until my friends ltierally forced me to go to the school social worker and from then on i kept going by myself. try it out.

YES, you should most definately help them and BEG them to seek help. A lot of people are raised to believe any type of mental problems makes you weak or crazy. Depression can even cause physical pain to your body in the form of cramps and aches and pains. Think of it like this; if you lose alot of blood, you die. Well, if the brain doesn't make enough of a certain chemical, it causes depression. Taking care of your mental health isn't something to be ashamed of.. You should let that person know, you're brain is a body part that can be damaged just like any other body part.

I wonder, because I don't know. I would argue I am not depressed, but that could be because I don't know any better. Suicide is something I know off. It is so often misunderstood as a selfish act because others most often view it from their perspective rather than the one who took their own individual solution to a life they did not want. Although I don't even think suicide is a death wish, I think its a peace wish. If you don't have peace are you depressed?
Believe me I really don't know. Suicide is a term with so much hush hush and taboo around it that society chooses to blame the individual who made that choice and feel aggrieved for their own personal loss. Yet such a view does not stop those who choose too from taking the path of suicide.
If I am depressed, well I must do well at hiding it. For no one knows.
If you know of someone who is depressed, time to act, to talk to encourage. If a person becomes accustomed to silence its a hard habit to change.

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its apart from the person who have the depression! Dont care of depression is also a good thing but u dont try to put or stuff ur worries and feelings with u if u do like this means it will cause severe effect
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you can't "help". No matter how well-intentioned you are, the person HAS to WANT to be helped.

Help evey one and anyone not only depressed person.. But only if the Help is Called for and Asked for... othewise it will be Forced Help and it is always torture.. Let the things go in its own way..

Of course you should try and help them because its no good later after they have gone to say 'If only we knew we would have done something'

I have a friend now that I feel is on the edge, I have trying to help by being supportive and possitive but not sure its helping and not sure what else to do to help.

When if someone hides their depression and you know they are then they are not doing a good job of it. Cause you know they are. Just advise hey if you need to talk to someone just know I am here. Try and take them out and get their minds off their troubles. Sometimes it helps.





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