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Professional help is indeed a must.
Sounds as if your friend needs at least some meds if not counseling and meds together. If you've been as depressed as she has for as long as she has, then your thinking gets knocked off course, which is why counseling is often recommended (preferably with a therapist who uses something called cognitive therapy to help you get your thinking back in order). Neither one of us is licensed, so I'm afraid we're of no help even if you were here on the mainland, Jemmie.
posted by
kidnykid
on August 18, 2003 at 7:26 PM
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I agree with Benzinha
about the professional help. Talk to her about finding a good clinician. See www.nmha.org for more information (click on the resource page).
posted by
Yoleo
on August 17, 2003 at 4:55 PM
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How about inviting her to come stay with you for a few days?
Does she have any financial resources to draw from? is it possible to get friends to chip in for a ticket? Sometimes just getting people out of their environment for awhile helps them gain perspective.
But I've always believed that ones self has to be the priority in life. If you do the best you can with what you have in the time you have it's the only way you will be strong enough and experienced enough to help others. Ultimately, you have to know that you can't assume the responsibility for another person. It is hard enough to control our own behavior and understand why WE do things, let alone another person.
If you let the people you care for know you love them, if you make yourself available when they call on you, that's the best you can, and the most you can do.
posted by
Cynthia
on August 17, 2003 at 10:58 AM
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well, I wouldn't put her photo out there and her story out there into
the biosphere for all to read. She is identified more each day by your comments. I hope that you have given her another name, but a reader in Hawaii might recognize her face and go blow her mind with what you have put out there for us.....
It's just a terrible thought that I had in today's terrible world....and I feared for her for an instant.....she is very vulnerable right now...Crabby says that anyone can read and see anything on this network, tho' we consider it more private and protected and clubby, than it really is....
Tell your friend to go get real professional help and tell her that with all of the love that fills your soul...so that she knows that you really need to have her hear you and to have her help to save herself...you are too far away....
posted by
benzinha
on August 16, 2003 at 1:13 PM
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