Mental Health Help For Friends and Family

This video is for you if a friend or a member of your family is suffering from a mental health problem. In the video I will share 6 tips to help you to help them.

Watching someone you care about suffer is extremely difficult, especially if you do not know how to help them. Hopefully in the video I will be able to point you in the right direction. My tips are as follows:
1. Inform yourself
Knowledge is power and it will give you a better understanding which will in turn put you in a stronger position to help and support.
2. Find out your person’s particular experience
Everyone’s experience of mental health is different, you need to know the specifics of your friend of family members experience to properly help.
3. How to start a conversation
This is tricky, so I will suggest some openers in the video
4. Allow your person to find their own way into treatment
5. Get support for yourself
6. Understand feeling of anger and frustration.

Resources
Useful Websites:
https://www.thebritishcbtcounsellingservice.com/
https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/helping-someone-else/carers-friends-family-coping-support/#.W22NwdJKiUk
https://www.rethink.org/carers-family-friends
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/supporting-someone-mental-health-problem
https://www.carersuk.org/

Books:
Mental Health
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Minds-Go-Mental-Friends/dp/B07B6663MV/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533907241&sr=1-5&keywords=mental+health+guide+for+friends+and+family
For Depression
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Coping-Depression-Carers/dp/1472119339/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1533906993&sr=8-1&keywords=coping+with+depression+for+carers
For Eating Disorders
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beating-Your-Eating-Disorder-Cognitive-Behavioral/dp/0521739047/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533907043&sr=1-2&keywords=eating+disorders+glenn+waller
For OCD
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Essential-Guide-Ocd-Families-Friends/dp/0745955800/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533907241&sr=1-8&keywords=mental+health+guide+for+friends+and+family
For Bipolar Disorder
https://www.amazon.co.uk/High-Tide-Low-Friends-Disorder/dp/8283310216/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533907241&sr=1-7&keywords=mental+health+guide+for+friends+and+family

For more useful information visit:
https://www.thebritishcbtcounsellingservice.com/

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I am the Lead Clinical Psychologist at The British CBT & Counselling Service and find that I am often the first person with whom my patients share significant and intimate thoughts and memories. I feel at ease being a therapist, I feel I can empathise with people’s distress and discomfort but don’t feel overwhelmed by it, I can understand their problem and know how to help, it has always just felt like what I should be doing.
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