5 Do's and Dont's of Dealing with Other's Mental Illness

Five tips for teaching someone with a mental illness based on an article from issue two of our magazine.

One of the great factors in whether those who are mentally ill will open up to a person about their feelings is:

What is the reaction of a person?

When someone in our life is ill. Now, these five tips should help assure that you liked and open up more to yourself.

Tip one: Don't allow your negative feelings to be visible Like I said, it can be frustrating trying to help someone who's ill. You might feel anger, sadness, or even enjoyment when trying to help.

Don't note that your loved one responds in a way you don't like, and don't talk to them as if they are stupid. Keep in mind, that if they could act healthy they would and if you show negative feelings to your loved ones, they are much more likely to hide their feelings.

Tip two: Do show them that you still care this one may seem obvious but often mental illness makes a person feel broken or somehow let down.

Therefore, your liked ones should be reminded that you care greatly about them without this reinsurance, they may feel as if no one cares.

Tip three: This one is important this is extremely unhelpful The idea that knowing that some people are worse off will feel better is simply not true.

In this way, it might make your loved one feel even worse

Firstly, all that matters to your liked one right now is that they feel bad so bringing up others doesn't really factor into how they feel.

Secondly, this reminder may cause guilt in your loved one. They may feel guilty for writing about the illness or even worse feel guilty for being ill at all.

This means that your liked one is less likely to open up about their illness to you or to anyone else in the future.

Tip 4: Don't try to relate: How they feel to your own experiences, that is until you have the same illness of course:

Or your friend with anxiety that you understand because you get anxious before exams aren't helpful. Mental illness is more extreme than other behavior in feelings and it can often feel Invalidating to the person to hear these things.

Also, doing this tends to focus the conversation back on you when it is the other person who needs support, so it's best to listen rather than try to offer up your own stories.

And finally, tip 5: Do try and research their illness The Internet is a wonderful tool that allows you to research whatever illness your loved one has.

You can research symptoms, and helpful tips, and read about others' experiences. It means that you can support your liked one in the best way possible.

Can they feel very hot is good for spotting?

That's it for our tips. Now we hope that you now feel better equipped to help support someone with mental illness feel free to write any queries in the comment section.