I will leave you a question at the end of this episode

Hello, I'm back again...

In the previous episode I already topic about how to handle depression. I hope it helps you or whoever is reading my novel.

Do you have a friend who's experiencing it right now?

if yes? how do you treat him or her?

How should we treat them???

This episode is about how us or we people treat them, so if you have some friend whose depress right now maybe this may help him or her.

so let's start???

Number one!

Listen to them

Let your friend know you’re there for them. You can start the conversation by sharing your concerns and asking a specific question. For example, you might say, “It seems like you’ve been having a hard time lately. What’s on your mind?”

Keep in mind that your friend may want to talk about what they feel, but they might not want advice.

Engage with your friend by using active listening techniques:

Ask questions to get more information instead of assuming you understand what they mean.

Validate their feelings. You might say, “That sounds difficult. I’m sorry to hear that.”

Show empathy and interest with your body language.

Your friend may not feel like talking the first time you ask, so it can help to continue telling them you care.

Keep asking open questions (without being pushy) and expressing your concern. Try to have conversations in person whenever possible. If you live in different areas, try video chatting.

Number two!!

Help them find support

Your friend may not be aware they’re dealing with depression, or they may be unsure how to reach out for support.

Even if they know therapy could help, it can be daunting to search for a therapist and make an appointment.

Number three!!!

Be patient

Your friend may continue to have symptoms from time to time or every day. Sometimes, they’ll probably have some good days and some bad days. Avoid assuming a good day means they’re “cured,” and try not to get frustrated if a string of bad days makes it seem like your friend will never improve.

so be patient!

Number four!!!!

Let them feel your care

Letting your friend know you still care about them as they continue to work through depression can help.

Even if you aren’t able to spend a lot of time with them regularly, check-in with a text, phone call, or quick visit. Even sending a quick text saying “I’ve been thinking of you and I care about you” can help.

People living with depression may become more withdrawn and avoid reaching out, so you may find yourself doing more work to maintain the friendship. But continuing to be a positive, supportive presence in your friend’s life may make all the difference to them, even if they can’t express that to you at the moment

Number five!!!!!

Don't give them advice

You might want to help by offering advice, like getting more exercise or eating a healthy diet. But even if it’s good advice, your friend may not want to hear it at the moment.

Sometimes, it may be best to stick to empathic listening and avoid offering advice until asked.

Just encourage them of what do you think is the best for them or what they want to do that is good for them.

I research about it and there is a lot of advice on the internet but for me, I think that five is good.

(I just add and edit some of them)

In my life, I know someone that committed suicide. I don't know him a lot and also I'm not close to him but I always see him in my town. He suicides because he has a lot of problems and I think that he can't handle it anymore so he decided to kill himself. But none of his friends think that he will commit suicide.

why?

because the man's physical appearance is looking happy, he always jokes too to his friends and if you see him you will think that he can handle the problems in his life correctly but in reality, it's opposite to him.

It's very sad seeing people commit suicide because they can't handle their problems. Honestly, sometimes I can't handle problems too, or maybe all of the time?? so I have some advice for you...

What if we stop judging people that we already know and we also we don't know? and can we just stop talking negatively to certain people

Maybe we can handle our problems but what if they can't?

do you think judging them will help them?

What if they have problems right now and they're feeling bad and you just keep saying nonsense words to them? I think you're not helping them to free their minds about problems but you're helping them to commit suicide, I guess.

Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean mental illness doesn't exist.

We don't know what's on their mind and also they don't know what's on our minds. Let's just be nice to our fellow humans, We don't know what's happening in their life, we don't know why his or her life is just like that so can we just spread the love and respect?

can I?

can we?

can you?

just

spread love and respect?

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