How To Comfort A Depressed Person
Likewise quoting scripture or lovely platitudes is usually a slap in the face to the depressed person.
How to comfort a depressed person. Keep asking open questions without being pushy and expressing your concern. Text them regularly to remind them that you love them and that you are around if they need anything. Don t tell the depressed person to have faith or pray more.
If you live in different areas try video chatting. They may not take you up on it but that doesn t mean it didn t bring some positivity to their life send a handwritten note or card to your friend. For some reason usually buried in the subconscious a person in depression has lost hope.
Fighting mental illness day in and day out isexhausting. When a depressed person uses a thousand therapeutic techniques to try to change how they feel every day it drains their energy and their fighting spirit which they need in order to survive in the long term.