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What is the best way to get a friend who has severe anxiety/depression help...? |
...even though he refuses to get help. I'm worried it's getting worse, and he may eventually become suicidal if he doesn't start getting treatment. When a person refuses to get help it's often hard to help them. If he is considered a danger to him self or others he can be put into a hospital against his will and medicated which as cruel as it is sometimes it is whats best rather than suicide. Talk to his parents his other friends maybe but talk to him talking to people face to face often makes them feel awkward and hard to talk maybe write him a note telling him your concerns that you'd go to a doctors appointment with him if he was willing to try even just to talk to them. You can't make people do things they don't want to but loosing them is a very scary thing maybe even talk to a doctor your self about ways you could help him. he needs to seek councelling!!!!!!!! cause it does get worse....sorry God that is a really hard question. In a lot of cases, it is nearly impossible to get the help that person needs unless they ca admit they have a problem, and are willing to help themselves. Unfortunately, you can't just commit a person that seems depressed, unless they actually try to harm themselves or someone else, and even then the most they get is like a 72 hour watch. The best advice is to get a group of friends together and try a group intervention, so that when he sees so many friends that are worried about him, and care about him, and they are telling him he needs to get help, maybe he will finally listen and get the help he needs. In the meantime you can be the best friend by just being there for him and listening to him, and keep him safe as best you can. yow! all you have to do is that, dont force him to talk if he does not like to. but be at his side always or ifnot often if you really like to help him. and tell him that your available anytime if you need him. because depressed people like him is actually not easy to handle. they are iritable and all you have to do is to be patient. being with his side is very therapeutic enough. dint talk too much to him if you think he doesnt like. just wait for a hint, like, he will verbalize something.. thats the time you have to talk. one more thing dont tell him that what he did is wrong or something, that they may feel guilty. emphatize of what he feel and understand him more.. this kind of people are as you said prone to suicidal, be calm to them, they are afraid to be rejected, so, dont argue with them. That's really sad, isn't it? Do you know why he refuses to get help? Why is he resisting? |
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