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Helping someone suffering from depression

This is for everyone who is seeking help on how to help someone suffering from depression. If you are dealing with this illness, please show this to your friends and family. Showing love and support can make a difference. Here are some tips:

1. Thank you for educating yourself

I know that having a loved one suffering from mental illnesses is very hard. You are not to blame. And you are doing the right thing by trying to educate yourself on how to help them. I am so proud that you are there for your friend, child, girlfriend, boyfriend, mother, father etc. Things will become better eventually and you can greatly impact your loved one's mental health.

2. Understanding depression

Depression is a real illness and its seriousness should not be underestimated. Do not blame your loved one for being drained from motivation and energy even if you do not unterstand the reasons. Do you blame someone suffering from cancer for being exhausted, for example? No.

Do not take it personally when your loved one says hurtful things. This is a common sign of depression. It is the illness talking and not your loved one. Please show compassion. I understand that this might be hard sometimes, but it is crucial to show your support. Otherwise your loved one's guilt might consume them which will feed the depression.

Saying things such as "But your life is totally fine.", "Just snap out of this!", "Why can't you be happy? I'm doing so much to help you!', "Oh, stop being lazy!" etc will NOT cure a serious illness. It will do the opposite.

You can help a depressed person, yes, but however hard you may try, healing someone else's depression is not possible. Still, offering your support is crucial to help your loved one to recover!!!

Know that this illness can lead to your loved one losing his, her, their life. Do not panic. Just know that this is serious and that they need all the support they can get.

3. recognizing symptoms of depression

Here are some examples:

Eating way less or even nothing or eating too much

Sleeping way less or sleeping too much

Abusing alc*hol or dr*gs

Having a negative outlook on life

Having little to no interest in anything anymore/ no motivation

Not wanting to leave the house/ the room etc.

Not being emotionally available

Saying things such as "I can't do this anymore!", "I am so exhausted!" etc.

4. Talking to someone about depression

Please show compassion and make them understand how much you love them. Do not blame your loved one for being difficult etc.

Please do not make this about yourself. Yes, l know you are suffering as well because seeing someone you love in that state is awful, but telling this to your loved one might only make his, her, their depression worse.

Giving advice might sometimes not be the best way to approach things at first. It might put too much pressure on your loved one. Showing love and understanding the illness will do way more to help the healing process.

Be persistent without pressuring them. People suffering from depression tend to withdraw themselves from other people. Show them that they can talk to you - without regretting it in the end.

5. How to start a conversation

Do something nice for them. For example, make their favorite food, bring them a snack, etc.

Sit with them for a while and start the conversation. Here is an example:

You know I love you, right? I've been noticing that you haven't been well lately and I'd really like to talk about that. I want you to be happy because you mean so much to me.

6. Examples of things you can say to your loved one:

I love you and I understand that this is not your fault. I will always be here for you!

You do not have to go through this alone. We are together in this.

If there is anything I can do to help you, I will do it immediately.

You can always come to me. Tell me anything.

No matter what, I will help you heal. I will not get mad when you withdraw from me or get angry at me. No matter what you do or what will happen, I will never abandon you.

Is there anything that happened to you and left you feel this way? (Trauma has to be talked about!)

Would you like to see a doctor? Would you like me to come?

7. Understanding the risk of suic*de and self harm

Always encourage your loved one to get professional help as the risks are too high. Here are some signs the person might be suic*dal:

- Talking about self-hatred, hopelessness, not seeing a point in existing anymore - Saying that their trauma is too big to ever heal and that things will never get better - Looking for things that can harm them and e. g. hiding them somewhere (for example a piece of glass) - Suddenly becoming very calm!

As treatment might sound pointless to your loved one (a common sign of depression), be persistent! Do not give up on them. Make appointments, tell them you will take care of everything.

8. Take care of yourself

Please do not neglect your own health! Thank you so much for helping your loved one. You are doing the right thing and there is so much hope! I am so grateful for anyone who is currently doing their best to help their person's healing process. You are saving a life! Thank you so much.

As always, if you are struggling right now and would like to talk to someone, please join our #selfhelpforstudents server on Discord.

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There are 17 days left until my Statistics exam👀

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had some wonderful days with your loved ones💖 I'm currently taking a break at the Baltic sea 🌊 It's pretty nice, but also very cold🥶 But I still manage to calm my mind and heal a bit✨

Hi!

I love your blog. I actually wanted your opinion on the bluetooth keyboard. I have a laptop already, but I was debating to if a keyboard would be beneficial for my iPad or if I should strictly keep it for handwritten notes?

Hey!✨️

Thank you🥰💖

So, I really like the logitech Bluetooth keyboard, but thb: I don't really use it that often.

So it's beneficial if you type a lot on your iPad, but definitely not a necessity if you are using your laptop for typing more and use your ipad mostly for handwritten notes.

Also, if you want to look at typed notes on your iPad: just use Google Docs for example. You can type your notes on your laptop and thanks to the cloud synchronisation you can repeat/read your notes on your iPad! (It's completely free, you only need to create a google acc)

I hope my answer is helpful in any way!

Have a nice day💖

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• Bio Psychology exam: D-2

• 3rd Semester: D-37

• Social Psychology exam: D-66

• Statistics exam: D-102

My life is really busy, but I can handle this! I’m also currently trying to organize everything with NOTION✨ Hopefully it will work out💖

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Let’s achieve all our goals this year together <3

Look who´s back!

I originally wanted to post this photo on the 1st of July, but sometimes life just mixes your plans up. But it´s ok! 

Everything is fine as long as I´m happy with myself and the stuff I want to achieve! 

The next two moth are going to be tough again, because of a lot of exam preparations, but at least I am going to have a lot of free time and can enjoy the little things aswell.

Guys, stay positive, look forward, what´s coming is better than what´s gone.

Just a casual saturday~

Earlier this month, i started comparing myself with other people’s progress and it made me really insecure. I felt so down afterwards and it made me feel like my efforts were not enough.

This day, i finally decided to jot down all my feelings in a journal and reflect on things i needed to do in order for me to prevent being so harsh with my self.

I realized that comparing myself with other people is just so bad for my mental health and it’s not in any way helping with my progress as a med student and as a person. I know for myself that I cannot prevent myself from being jealous with other people’s lives (let’s be real here shall we) as it’s part of how we’re built as humans.

Sooo, in order for me to be at peace, i unfollowed and muted some of the people that’s making me feel so insecure. (Huhu im so sorry, im the problem here and not those people who I unfollowed)

I listed all my monthly achievements (since march) and failures then reflected on the things that i can improve on myself based on what I previously wrote.

I just wish this works and this makes me stop comparing myself for the next few months. I just can’t help being insecure sometimes:(((