How do you help a young adult who is 21 years old and depressed?!
Question:
How do you help a young adult who is 21 years old and depressed?
This person in question is also jobless, disconnected from friends, lazy, and wanting to leave home to go live with a man she met on the internet. How do I help her?
Answers:
She'll think you're either pushy or jealous if you try to advice her even if she doesn't tell you that -she'll start confiding in her new found friend she met. Be a good friend and respect her wishes but keep your eyes for anything questionable with this new friend she met and be there for her. If it doesn't end up going so well or their relationship later or sooner end, don't be on her face and tell her i told you so just show her compassion when she needs it. Mistakes are the only way people learn. I am twenty one too and I've been learning such things the hard way so definitely experience changes everything. It's very likely she is seeking someone's attention out of depression, i know i once did. So its probably won't last once she realizes that she still unhappy later. Take care of yourself and your friend.